The Wizard of Özil

[Power n Glory]

Cesc played with Henry, Gilberto, Pires, Ljungberg, Bergkamp, Hleb, Rosicky, van Persie, Arshavin, Adebayor, and Nasri.

Ozil played with Alexis, Giroud, Cazorla, Walcott, Ramsey, Xhaka, Auba, et. al. Apart from Alexis, none of them are in the same league

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That's a massive misrepresentation of who Cesc played with and you've purposely left off some of the weaker players he'd often played with but oddly enough they appear on Ozil's list. Cesc also played Walcott and Ramsey but they were more inexperienced and not as good.

Look up the line up where he was playing injured vs Barca. We were playing with Diaby and Song in the middle. Bendtner up front.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 591643.stm

Or maybe the AC Milan win where we're up against Ancelotti's me. Kaka, Pirlo, Gattuso, Maldini and Nesta.

https://www.skysports.com/football/ac-m ... eams/98222

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/spielbe ... icht/88402

He's playing with Diaby and Flamini in midfield. Eboue and Hleb on the wings. Gallas and Senderos as CB. Ade up front. That's not a strong team but they got the job done..

It was a revolving door at Arsenal at the time and there was no consistency expect for Cesc's performances. Rosicky was injury prone, so was RVP who was also immature and inconsistent at the time when Cesc was around. Nasri was never that good. Hleb neither. Ade and Arshavin's careers here were short along with there run of good form. Despite all that, Cesc had grown into a top goal scorer and playmaker.

[Santi]

Was a huge mistake not bringing Cesc back, he wanted to come and we all knew how good he was. Shame Chelsea got the benefit and we got more Ramsey...

[Marsbar100]

Cesc and ozil together would have been unstoppable, the two best creative midfielders over the last 10-15 years.

[Ach]

Cesc had a good 2 months for Chelsea and was never seen again lol

Bringing him back would have accelerated our decline more cos we didn't have a flamini to baby sit him

[Dejan]

Cesc played with Henry, Gilberto, Pires, Ljungberg, Bergkamp, Hleb, Rosicky, van Persie, Arshavin, Adebayor, and Nasri.

Ozil played with Alexis, Giroud, Cazorla, Walcott, Ramsey, Xhaka, Auba, et. al. Apart from Alexis, none of them are in the same league

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That's a massive misrepresentation of who Cesc played with and you've purposely left off some of the weaker players he'd often played with but oddly enough they appear on Ozil's list. Cesc also played Walcott and Ramsey but they were more inexperienced and not as good.

Look up the line up where he was playing injured vs Barca. We were playing with Diaby and Song in the middle. Bendtner up front.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 591643.stm

Or maybe the AC Milan win where we're up against Ancelotti's me. Kaka, Pirlo, Gattuso, Maldini and Nesta.

https://www.skysports.com/football/ac-m ... eams/98222

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/spielbe ... icht/88402

He's playing with Diaby and Flamini in midfield. Eboue and Hleb on the wings. Gallas and Senderos as CB. Ade up front. That's not a strong team but they got the job done..

It was a revolving door at Arsenal at the time and there was no consistency expect for Cesc's performances. Rosicky was injury prone, so was RVP who was also immature and inconsistent at the time when Cesc was around. Nasri was never that good. Hleb neither. Ade and Arshavin's careers here were short along with there run of good form. Despite all that, Cesc had grown into a top goal scorer and playmaker.

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[KG3]

Wasn't cesc fault Wenger turned him down

I can't blame Wenger for not re-signing him. We had Cazorla and Ozil in 2014 and that money rightly went towards buying Alexis.

Only via a magic 8 ball could we have known that Cazorla would have a serious injury and that Ozils peak would be so short-lived.

Wenger was using Cazorla to play on the wing at that time which was a waste of his talent. Took injuries to Ramsey, Wilshere and Ozil for Wenger to play him as a CM.

We would have seen the best of Ozil earlier if he had given up the ghost on Ramsey and Wilshere much sooner and bought Cesc back.

If we bought in Fabregas we wouldn’t have bought Xhaka 2 years later who was the same price, probably could have won the title in 15-16 also.

[starmandb]

Özil was superb when we were 2-0 down at Ludogorets in 16/17
Provided an assist for Xhaka and scored the winner. Lobbing the keeper and making two defenders have to pay to get back in again before finishing

He schooled them that day. But it was still Ludogorets, a team we hit 6 against in the first leg, where Ozil got a hattrick. Being down 2-0 to them a week later is Arsenal being Arsenal, not because they're strong opposition.

PSG did draw at home with ludogrets in the same group and were behind twice. Liverpool drew there once as well

[swipe right]

Thread has got hijacked by idiots. Cesc and Ozil are incredible players. There’s not much to choose between them. My point was that we should be using Ozil the way Monaco uses Cesc. There is still life in these players because their game is not based on physical prowess. It’s based on speed of thought and technical ability which does not diminish much with age.

[Power n Glory]

Wasn't cesc fault Wenger turned him down

I can't blame Wenger for not re-signing him. We had Cazorla and Ozil in 2014 and that money rightly went towards buying Alexis.

Only via a magic 8 ball could we have known that Cazorla would have a serious injury and that Ozils peak would be so short-lived.

Wenger was using Cazorla to play on the wing at that time which was a waste of his talent. Took injuries to Ramsey, Wilshere and Ozil for Wenger to play him as a CM.

We would have seen the best of Ozil earlier if he had given up the ghost on Ramsey and Wilshere much sooner and bought Cesc back.

If we bought in Fabregas we wouldn’t have bought Xhaka 2 years later who was the same price, probably could have won the title in 15-16 also.

That Xhaka transfer was the nail in the coffin. I can't believe the sheer stupidity of it. Sealed our fate. He is the embodiment of every flaw we've seen in our midfield. Pace of Cesc, Ozil level defending, the vision of Denilson (Mr sideways) and about as much as a goal threat as Francis Coquelin. Turns like a tractor on the ball, super one footed, the tekkers of Sokratis and unfortunately, super reliable and hardly injured.

Oh yes and they decided to make him captain.

[Angelito]

[jayramfootball]

[Ach]

Best player again today

Ozil for player manager.

[Tony Adams]

Not a fan but would have been useful today

[Marsbar100]

We have had bad performances even with ozil but he should be in the squad

[jayramfootball]

We have had bad performances even with ozil but he should be in the squad

We've never looked as bad creatively since we left Ozil out of the team.