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I have become somewhat of an unofficial guardian of our Mes. Partly due to the highly unnecessary hate campaign for him by the tabloids last season that spilled into the World Cup in Brazil. I have felt it my duty to at all times defend our record signing when I hear people talk smack about him like Rick defends his friends on The Walking Dead.
Mesut Ozil isn’t the enigma he has been portrayed as.
I don’t want to bore you with his game time statistics (which are quite impressive) but if there was ever a footballer who epitomises German efficiency its Number 11.
I know everyone was expecting gold dust to fall from his bum cheeks every time he ran with the ball when we signed him and when they saw none, he was regarded as another expensive flop, ripe for the discarding into the Premier League waste bin labeled ‘can’t cut it’.
You see, Mesut Ozil is the Max Factor of this Arsenal team, it’s his job to make everyone else look good. (I thought it was clever)
I must admit, I was almost done with him during our 2-0 defeat to Chelsea earlier in the season. With the game all but over, Ozil dilly-dallies on the ball, only for Cesc Fabregas of all people to snatch it off him with embarrassing ease. It was hurtful to see. I felt like he was my son and all the other dads stood in the stands and laughed at me. But since his return from injury however, with a little size added to his deltoids he seems more determined than ever to show the world what he is capable of, not that he ever needed to in my estimation.
There is a quiet, non obvious excellence that exudes from his game, a classic footballer with a little something extra, like extremely fancy vanilla ice cream; simple, yet who can hate it?
We will rightly point to players such as Alexis Sanchez and the wonderful Santi Cazorla as the standout performers so far this campaign, but, for some strange reason, and many will disagree with me, that young Turkish kid from Germany remains the diamond in this gunners crown. I know I’ve not made any real compelling argument for those who doubt him, but I guess ‘there will be haters’, right Mesut?
Driving Arsenal to success?
