Mesut Özil Thread (official!)

[Cripps_orig]

Yeah you'd sign a five year deal with a club you didn't want to join.

Hunters an idiot.

[Master Splinter]

Hunters an idiot.

Best Gladiator in the business.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hunters an idiot.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Yeah you'd sign a five year deal with a club you didn't want to join.

But enough about me...

[Cripps_orig]

Best Gladiator in the business.

Nah, Shadow was.

Can't forget Wolf of course.

[Cripps_orig]

Trips

[Özim]

Pretty much.

Football is littered with transfers of players who wanted to go elsewhere but the call never came.

I'm sure if someone asked Craig Mackail-Smith if he'd like to join man utd, he'd love to but the call never comes so he joined Brighton.

It's not that surprising, I mean Man U have been competitive for years so it isn't entirely surprising a big player would prefer a move to them over us. What's important is that we got him and we can move forward now, the trouble with our policy in recent years is that big players were less and less likely to join but signing Ozil may reverse that trend, it's our lucky break if you like....sometimes you need a bit of luck to get things going.

[Nayan]

Graham Hunter and a few journos on the Spanish side of things are adamant that Ozil was stalling Arsenal and desperately waiting for United to gazump us.

Who else is starting to dislike this guy already?

Fuck Utd tbh
And I never heard of hunter.

[Niall_Quinn]

http://www.sportskeeda.com/2013/09/0...graham-hunter/

Big news attracts news surfers and repeaters. If Ozil had wanted to go to Utd he'd be at Utd now. Unless Utd were too dumb to snap this player up in which case they are in an even worse state than previously thought - either because they don't have the cash or more likely because they swapped a legend for a mediocre manager who's out of his depth. Or both. This is the numero uno transfer of the summer, nothing else comes close in this country. By the sound of it, Ozil wanted to stay at Madrid. So if we're second choice then so is everyone else. And if we're second choice to Utd then great news, long time since we were able to outgun a money club in the transfer window. And great to see one of our rivals struggling so badly to get it together, long may it last.

[Cripps_orig]

Manchester United claim they have no regrets about not signing £42.4m playmaker Mesut Ozil ahead of Arsenal. The Premier League champions were offered the 24-year-old a month ago, but chose to prioritise trying to buy a central midfielder and left-back.
Full story: the Times [subscription required]

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