De Bruyne is better than Özil, there's no denying it. You could argue Özil's vision is marginally better but De Bruyne then still outshines him everywhere else. That doesn't change that Özil is a brilliant player though.
De Bruyne is better than Özil, there's no denying it. You could argue Özil's vision is marginally better but De Bruyne then still outshines him everywhere else. That doesn't change that Özil is a brilliant player though.
Elneny is the reason Mo Salah will never get the praise he deserves, not KDB. Must be difficult to be in Elneny's shadow. Happened at Al Mokawloon 7 years ago, at Basel, at the Egyptian national team, and now again in the PL.It’s not fair to compare Özil playing for arguably the worst Arsenal team ever, to a guy playing for the best team in the country with the most talented players alongside him.
If we want to be fair in our assessment then put Özil in City team with Aguero, Jesus, Sterling and Sane, and then put KDB in our team then let’s talk.
KDB is a quality player, but Raheem Sterling had a better season and influenced far more games than he did...but he’s the media’s unanimous POTY. Poor Mohamed Salah
I wonder. I wish I had a bunch of numbers per game, I'd like to do those sorts of analysis. Even if it's just player positioning per time. If somebody can tell me where to get them. I can make something that can do that ( I think)
Yes but if I had player movement with respect to time I can make (with a bit of time) an algorithm to calculate it... I'm looking for that dataThe KPI you're looking for is the so called 'packing rate'. Some former ex-Bundesliga players are making analyses for this but i fear you have to pay for this. they introduced it at the Euros, Kroos and Mesut stood out for this. goalkeepers have to be excluded of course since they overplay a lot of players with long range passes.
http://www.impect.com/en/
I don't know why everyone was so happy when he signed a new contract
Would any other big club have signed him for the wages he's on now? I don't think so
I haven't seen him step up in a big game for a long time.
No doubt they are both very valuable to Die Mannschaft but Kroos and Hummels are possibly as important if not more than those two.The 2 most valuable Germany players.
Where is the sudden Özil hatred coming from? The man just had two great games for us.
What the hell? What Özil have you been watching? All those characteristics you mentioned are the same things we have been asking from him since he has been here. Özil dictates games? Influences the flow and KDB can’t? Seriously? All we have heard since Özil moved here is that “Özil is not the type to dominate, influence, dictate a game, take a game by the scruff of the neck etc”.Özil to Arsenal instead of Madrid in 2010 would've made him into one of the greatest of all time. Mourinho coached the dribbling and directness he still had at Bremen out of him and made him a counter attacking pivot. Now add that back to his game - Wenger would've nver coached it out of him - and he's got everything you want in an atttacking mid along the pure, natural talent for football he's obviousvly got.
At Arsenal and Germany, he's shown he can assist and be a danger in the final third, but he can also drop deep or shift to the wings to pull the strings. De Bruyne, not wanting to take away from his game, but he's not as influential as Özil is on his own in terms of strategically taking over/influencing the rhythm of games. The Belgian is a match winner and game changer, no doubt, he's shown that at Wolfsburg already, but he does massively profit from the players around him at City and he's very much a final third player. Would still be rated as one of the best CAMs, but surely not as the outstanding one as he is now in England, if not for City right now. He's more of an active opportunist, if that makes sense, in that he does rely on other players to take over certain aspects of a game, e.g. to dictate play, whereas Özil has shown he can exactly do that. Which then again puts him further down the pitch, which decreases his output in the final third compared to De Bruyne, but furthers his influence on how games flow. It's not really about assisiting or about creativity and taking that away from Kevin, but I've never seen him run games in the way Mesut has done at Arsenal a couple of times.
It's a bit like comparing oranges and apples in terms of attacking mids, but all in all, I think Özil is the better footballer, who's had the unfortunate circumstance of playing under Mourinho who kinda streamlined him, which, for him at least, was probably the wrong measure.
Agree here. Even when he looks quiet there are times when he is cancelling players out of the game because of his movement and vision.When Özil is on song he's running games. If you cant see that I honestly dont care.
The average house price in the UK is £225,000
The average annual wage in the UK is £23,500
He could buy a house every week for 3 1/2 years and still live off five times the average annual wage with his spare change in that same week.
How’s that for context?
Now go and bust a gut out there lad, end of.