Early reports say Ozil is 'ill' and will miss the West Ham game.
Early reports say Ozil is 'ill' and will miss the West Ham game.
He's probably been dropped.
He needs to be sold as soon as possible!!
There’s still time to flog him off abroad somewhere isnt there?!?
Mate. With his salary, we couldnÂ’t give him away.
Someone mentioned earlier that if teams like Barca came in with offers of 200k per week, he would have been off.
There is a reason why those teams didnÂ’t.
I canÂ’t think of one reason why we gave him the contract he is on now. We have put a number of players on contracts they just didnÂ’t earn.
But this waster is the poster boy for our bad business. It is beyond painful watching this asshole take the fucking piss out of this Club.
If you don’t send this signature to ten people, you will become a Spurs fan.
Surprisingly little talk of the alleged bust up on here....
Are we assuming that there was a bust up then?
Emery's denial is pretty firm, but in a way both things could be true.
Ozil might have not been well, but they could still have had a disagreement
Either way, I think unless Ozil stops acting like a victim the whole time, he's finished for good at any kind of serious level or in any serious league
Well according to Andy Dunn on the Sunday supplement we can't afford to freeze Ozil out as he is our star player...
It could be as simple as Özil being under the weather, Emery deciding not to play him as he wants a 100% fit team for each game and Özil being annoyed at being dropped. Nothing more than that. Any player who does not feel upset about not being selected should not be in the club, never mind the squad, so if Özil is upset about not being selected, that is not a bad thing.
Özil does get effected by the mood of the rest of the team - he is not the born leader type - but when he plays well, he gives brilliant and penetrating delivery of the ball. Players like him need drivers and leaders around them. I think that is one of the places where Wenger missed out - he didn't seem to think captains were so important. When we had success, we had the Vieira, Adams, Bergkamp and so on - key leader-players in different parts of the pitch - who drove the players around them.
Özil is not one of those players but he is not alone in this. Having said that, if Emery makes an example and gets rid of him in January resulting in the team working better, so be it.