Ozil was a great player on the wrong team giroud ozil and Sanchez just wasn’t it individually great but none of them suited each other Aubameyang would’ve been perfect for ozil
While true, the only reason Ozil even became available for transfer was because Real signed Gareth Bale. That's it. Ozil was completely blindsided by all of it. Ronaldo was even famous for saying "why Ozil, why not De Maria?" due to how many assists came from the German. Nobody saw the Ozil to Arsenal transfer coming. At the time, it was a game changer for Arsenal, and completely out of character for Wenger. To the point where I'd argue it bought Wenger his final 5 seasons at the club. Without the Ozil signing, Wenger would not have lasted until 2018 as manager.
It was amazing how good it looked on paper but not that great on pitch. Özil through passes to Giroud who was not a runner. Giroud passes to Sanchez expecting a return cross as he makes a run but Sanchez shoots because he was selfish. Giroud nods it down for a Mesut finish but finishing was not his strong suit.
Theo was supposed to be the quick player but of course he got injured. Typical Wumger. If only he could have brought a fast winger. But lacazette!
The thing is it was reasonably good but this is all about the margins - so it lacked 5% or so We were all thinking if only Wumger could sign an elite 9 things would be so much better, but the offensive output of Ozil/Giroud/Alexis was very high, and basically the thing holding together a very leaky ship There was a fascinating data analysis which showed the collapse of Arsenal coincided pretty directly with the winding down of the Ozil/Giroud/Alexis era. Giroud himself kind of summarises the era - a borderline elite player with some big flaws.
Have you forgotten the infamous letter to the fans explaining why he had to leave. RVP forced his way out. IIRC he was refusing to sign a new contract. I’m not sure you could really blame him for feeling Arsenal lacked ambition with Cesc and Nasri leaving the year before.
I am glad he left and pretty much won a league title single handed. he wasted his career on dino. ditto cesc. He left and won things instead of wasting more years on a mediocre manager.
I see it as quite similar to Pogba - he wasted his entire peak career on a mediocre Man U side and failed managers. Of course he could have done more, but most of the time he was playing with colleagues who just couldn't play football properly which inevitably drags you down to their level.
Considering how many games RVP missed due to injuries when he was here, forcing his way out the way he did was a particularly bad look.
The title he won at yanited completed the little boy inside RvP. I wonder if the grown man inside RvP today trades that title in for legendary status at Arsenal? Might depend on the day, I suppose. But there's no list of legendary players for Man U that features RvP.
Me and @DutchCane said it a few years later, but Gervinho would have 400 shots and have scored 25 goals with Ozil.
One of the reason those guys were injured so much is they got no protection from the refs It's why I advocated Cesc leaving before someone ended his career
True. But RvP's worst injury while an Arsenal player came on international duty. And Cesc's worst injury with us was ironically (maybe) from a tackle by his buddy Alonso.