Match Reaction vs United

[IBK]

I really dont get football fans/media today... Its all about scoring, no mather what your position is :s I even heard some media talking about Gibbs not doing well enough, because of his scoring statistics (and Wilshere aswell). A guy like Zinedine Zidane would have no chance of winning ballon d'or in todays football, who i think Özil reminds me most about. who btw, people hardly knew about, when he was Özils age.

I'm sure we will see great things from this guy, as soon as he settles in this country/culture, the premier league and within the team. He's still a young guy and will develop even further.

I take your point, and tend to agree that Ozil will come good. Personally, I think its fair enough that when a club - even more so Arsenal - spend that amount on a player, the spotlight is on him and people are looking for him to work miracles every week.

[Nayan]

Tight game. Thought we looked leggy and tired. Second half much better, and two big strikers bearing down on a perfect crosses from sagna really should've yielded a goal.
I don't think we were good value for three points but its a shame we didn't scarp our way to a draw.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Personally, I'd sum it up by saying he's a team changer rather than a game changer. All well and good, and of course true game changers are uncommon. But if you look at the traditional top 4 (excluding us), all of them (apart from perhaps Spurs - and they sold their game changer to RM) have 2 or more players who can change a game on their own. As we have seen with our own recent examples - you need players like these to help you pick up points when the team has an off day. Its fair to say that perhaps Ozil is a victim of the type of player he is and the manager's decision to break the bank for that type of player, but 42M is enough money to bring a true 'game changer' to the club. I wouldn't be without Ozil, because clearly he has helped to lift our players. But footballing wise, so far his on pitch exploits have not matched his off-field contribution. That's not reactionary or an indication that he can't go on to become a monster under Wenger's tutilage. Just an observation so far. Lets hope that given what we have paid for him his improvement will be quicker than that of the developmental players who cost a lot less for the manager to develop.

I actually do think we need a game changer and have done since we sold the skunk. That is why I advocate the next forward we sign being of the absolute best quality we can afford, within reason.

And I think we need to acquire that game changer rather than mould Ozil into it. I think we should allow Ozil to be Ozil. He can obviously afford to score more but I don't think it's really his game to ever be a 1 in 1 or a 1 in 2 goal scorer.

[Globalgunner]

Ozil is an exceptional player, however he needs other exceptional players around him otherwise , similar with the departure of Van P, it will beat case of one step fowardsand one step backwards. His lift on the team is tangible but we are imo still 1 or 2players away from the calibre of the invincibles, a team that can stand up to any other in this league or in Europe.The fear is that if we don't make the right purchases soon. We may end up where we were in 2009, on the cusp of great team only to see all our best players leave us in disillusionment. Players like, Ozil, Cazorla, will not be here in 2 years time if we still haven't won anything.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

Yes that's true. Too many times we've rested on our laurels and thought further investment was not needed. Unfortunately football doesn't work like that because the level of competition is so high.

We're now in a sound financial position so must make use of it by signing 1-2 top players every year, say 1 in january and 1 in the summer. Or at the very least, 1 top signing and a few other less profile players in a calendar year. In other words, we need to go back to being a normal football club i.e. investing in the areas that need investing. This is something we stopped doing during project youth.

[Injury Time]

Typical.