WE need a Costa
type striker (Nothing wrong with Giroud) who can score by making his own goals apart from taking clear chances, Additional creativity to fight for
OZIL (No disrespect but for 42M he has not proved to be a game changer in Big games — Better players even cost less e.g Costa, Hazard - HE MUST DO MORE) and Cazorla
position.
Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that
Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of
position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an
Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off
Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the
Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first
type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both
Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than
Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste
The Ox was never going to be able to do what
Ozil does for Arsenal because he is a different
type of player altogether, and even when he has played in the centre of midfield for us instead of on one of the flanks it has been in the box - to - box role rather than the number 10
position.
I agree that
ozil is probably one of the best crossers in europe but that being said he is also one of the best passers in europe, the best way to accomodate this is the way we did last season, make all the playmakers play with fluidity, ramsey /
ozil / ox exc should be switching
positions all game, to confuse the opposition, which we did so well in the first half of the season, if we can sustain that
type of play whilst changing formations at the right time, there's no reason why we shouldn't have the title wrapped up by the time we get to Old Toilet, to see my good old mate Judas's facial expression when he has to congratulate our achievement