Mesut Özil Thread (official!)

[Ollie the Optimist]

I think the phone conversation had a lot to do with it to be honest. He was expected to stay with Madrid up until the last week. Credit where it’s due really. He could have had the Moyes effect. Utd are a massive club but nobody was interested in joining them. That says a lot and we really have to bring in a top name when Wenger is gone or he has to leave a really good team with title winning potential behind him if we go for an unknown.

A few days ago ozil said he was staying, one phone call with wenger changed that. This is one signing that you credit wenger with. He convinced the player, a genuine world class player to sign for us. Gazidas did his bit by getting the money side right. But this is wengers signing, and he deserves all the credit.

Remember how wenger said spending money on proven quality is not a problem for him? He's right. No haggling, no dithering. He wanted ozil and got it done.

[Özim]

I remember when Wenger signed Bergkamp, this is a bit like that.

[Letters]

We have only gone and fucking bought Mesut Özil!!

"It's important to put the umlaut on the O because then you can see what Daniel Levy's face looked like when he heard about us signing him"
- Someone

[GP]

Wenger didn't sign Bergkamp.


He just advised David Dein to sign him.

[Ollie the Optimist]

"It's important to put the umlaut on the O because then you can see what Daniel Levy's face looked like when he heard about us signing him"
- Someone

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Madrid
Levy

[LDG]

Remember when Robinho was in Eboue's pocket?

What did Eboue do with him in the end?

Probably played a practical joke on him or something. I have no idea.

Robinho

I remember him.

[LDG]

Spurs
Madrid
Levy

MÖyes

RÖnaldÖ

[Syn]

He goes to Utd if that's his main aim surely? He'd be the go-to guy there too and he'd have RvP to replace Ronaldo. Coming to Arsenal represents a bigger challenge and bigger risk. He said he was pleased to hear our plans for the future, yes just as much chance of that being post transfer bullshit as truth, but let's not entirely discount the possibility he heard some shit to get him excited. Maybe we really have just emerged from an eight year long tunnel. Hope so anyway.

Word on the street is Man Utd didn't offer enough because they couldn't afford him. His options were us or PSG.


Maybe he lapped up a good sales pitch. Maybe he didn't. But my thinking is that this wouldn't have generated as much of a fuss if any other club had bought him, and I doubt he or his agent didn't know that.


But regardless of how it has happened convincing the first top player was always going to be the most difficult. Consistent £40m net expenditure a year will see us competing in a couple of years max, unless our new manager's moyes or someone shit.

[Nayan]

I remember when Wenger signed Bergkamp, this is a bit like that.

Do you actually have proof of wenger's involvement there, beyond dein supposedly consulting him about it before he'd taken the Arsenal job I mean

[Xhaka Can’t]

I read about it in a book on. Wenger about 9-10 years ago.