Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
The "Ozil doesn't turn up for big games" bullshit is pure media. Arsenal doesn't turn up for the big games and this brings us back to square one. Are we relying on Ozil to compensate? If so, we picked the wrong player. If we want a world class playmaker in a well drilled team then Ozil is our man. If we want an expensive artisan trying to dance on a reservoir of sewage then, however you look at it, it's not going to be pretty. You seem to have it in for the guy because he doesn't have the character to pull this team up by himself, despite the crazed manager. He didn't have that character at Madrid and he didn't have it for the Germans. Other players provided that and Ozil supplied the ammo. That's what he does, in teams that have an ambition to attack the opposition, rather than bore them to death.
Exactly. We picked the wrong player to build around.

I have it in for him because he's our record signing and has been coasting his entire time being here. Am I supposed to be happy about that given the criticism I've dished out to Wenger when it comes to this sort of topic?