theHotHead wrote: You are welcome to your opinion but you won't be surprised to see I disagree with it entirely. There was a reason Barca let Neymar go. There was a reason Spurs let Bale go. There was a reason Man U let Ronaldo go. There is a reason all clubs let their best players go and it aint because the player is unmanageable or not good enough. The rest of your post makes no sense, you talk about Madrid replacing Ozil with Modric, no they didn't, they play totally different roles.
Modric has scored 13 goals and provided 35 assists during his time at Real Madrid. 18,484 mins played.
Ozil scored 27 goals and provided 81 assists. during his time at Real Madrid. 11,377 mins played.
You are regurgitating the same crap that others that don't get it regurgitate. Ozil is not the type of player to carry teams, he does not have that fire, that drive, that leadership quality to lift a team. So saying he is somehow a lesser player because of it - yet he has record stats in every league he has played in, cuts no ice.
Neymar, Bale, Ronaldo all moved for money .... either PR money, club money, or personal gain .... no problem with any of that, every big club loses/gains top players ....
I'm not saying
'let Ozil go' far from it, if you look at the Ozil thread you will see I've supported him endlessly .... this thread is not about Ozil but about Wonger and his failure to create a team, a squad, or the tactics where we will see the benefit of Ozil ....
He needs to play free role with two sound defensive midfield players behind him, we haven't had that since we signed him .... he will never carry a team through tough games, RM let him go not because he was a
'bad player' but because he didn't fit the manager's dynamic .... to quote Ozil
'I did not have the faith from the coach or the bosses'Hindsight is obviously easy but who the feck thought playing two
'can't fight they're way out of a wet paper bag' creative attacking players against a spuds side that can only play one way, was ever going to work? when you're in a fight you need fighters not ballet dancers however good at ballet they might be ....
FYI - As you rightly point out Modric is in a whole different class to Ozil (
and pretty much everyone else) he's a central midfielder not the same as Ozil so their stats will obviously be very different ....
As I said this is the Wonger thread .... I'm not bashing Ozil nor for one second suggesting he should go, he is by far our best player on his day .... what I am saying is that Wonger hasn't a feckin' clue how to get the best from him, or indeed from the entire squad .... Wonger is and has been the problem for a very long time, Ozil is just his latest victim .....
Wonger got away with square pegs in round holes when the opposition managers were all cigar smoking, wine swilling, egotists .... now he's faced with pragmatic, focused, highly professional managers that just won't work anymore .... Mourinho is having the same struggles but at least he's attempting to adapt (
selling Mkhi and dropping Pogba) ... Wonger is away with the fairies, spending millions on square pegs when we have a whole row of empty round holes .... we need to get him gone