Mesut Özil Thread (official!)

[Power n Glory]

A chunk of stories on the under performing Ozil. Here are some examples. He's coming under the spotlight and needs to really get it together over the coming weeks.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/...122637109.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...o-instead.html

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...arsenal-so-far

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...chester-united

[Özil's Panoramic View]

Özil looks like he doesn't want to be here - his glum disposition being the main indicator here. He just seems like he can't really be arsed to put in a proper shift.

I could be wrong, but I think he was forced out of Madrid and ended up here because we seemed the only side willing to match their asking price at last minute.

That being said, as much as it's only fair for any player leaving Madrid to consider the move a step down - especially moving to us - he's already here and as such needs to get with the flow or face the possibility of warming the bench for a few games. £42.5 mil is not exactly chicken feed. Therefore he needs to start giving performances that justify his hefty price tag.

[Niall_Quinn]

No he doesn't, he needs to ignore all those cunt leeches who make their living talking shit about the game. What he needs to do is a Ramsey. Ignore it all and just get on with integrating with the team and upping his performances.

[Power n Glory]

It really makes no sense for him to feel that way. We were top of the table up until the Liverpool game. He has a massive chance to show Madrid what they're missing and to be a massive star. Ronnie was taking all the headlines for Madrid.

[Niall_Quinn]

Would we be more comfortable had Ozil been smiling and joking about when he was subbed and the team was being thrashed?

[Niall_Quinn]

A chunk of stories on the under performing Ozil. Here are some examples. He's coming under the spotlight and needs to really get it together over the coming weeks.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/...122637109.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...o-instead.html

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...arsenal-so-far

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...chester-united

The fact that he was subbed off after an hour as part of a triple substitution from Arsene Wenger would support any claim that Ozil was not contributing to the match, as does his Squawka Performance Score of -27. Only two Arsenal players out of the 14 who played scored worse, goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny with -36 and Olivier Giroud with -39.

LOL, proves how useful their "Squawka Performance Score" is - Ches the second worst player! LOL - arseholes.

[Power n Glory]

Would we be more comfortable had Ozil been smiling and joking about when he was subbed and the team was being thrashed?

That's irrelevant. The focus is on his performance and there isn't a single news story talking about his reaction to being subbed. He should be unhappy with his performances.

[Niall_Quinn]

We did this sort of shit with Ramsey. Now we are all lamenting him being injured, vital player for us apparently. If Ozil had cost 50p everyone would be on the back of the next most expensive signing. Nobody played on Saturday, singling out the link man in a team where there was nothing to link to makes no sense. No way am I jumping on this bandwagon.

[Power n Glory]

We did this sort of shit with Ramsey. Now we are all lamenting him being injured, vital player for us apparently. If Ozil had cost 50p everyone would be on the back of the next most expensive signing. Nobody played on Saturday, singling out the link man in a team where there was nothing to link to makes no sense. No way am I jumping on this bandwagon.

Then hope off. There is a huge difference between analysing and discussing a performance over a complete write off.

Plenty of scope to talking about his playing style, where he's going wrong, what players he's suited with and what he needs to improve on. Most of the articles posted are balanced and there isn't anything OT on there.

[Niall_Quinn]

The media is a 7 day event, one week they'll say one thing and the next they are entirely happy to contradict themselves on every "sensational" point they previously "exclusively" revealed. It's a shitty hype factory designed to attract attention, not discuss football in a meaningful way. It's unedifying to see the fans chasing after each hot topic shit out by the media whores. They are into Ozil right now because he cost £40mill, that's the whole thrust of their story. I'd rather be thinking about where we went wrong as a team and how we can fix that, rather than looking at fantasy quick-fixes such as making a scapegoat of Ozil. Why did Liverpool rip the defence apart almost at will? Because of Ozil? The media is expert at taking the complexity out of everything and reducing it to simple concepts that focus around celebrity rather than substance. You've listened to those asshole journos on Sunday Supplement I suppose? Fucking arseholes, change their tune every 5 minutes and do it with a frank and self satisfied expression on thri faces as if they know shit about shit. They know how to flog chip wrappers, that's it, there's nothing more to see or learn from them.