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Mesut Özil: 2019/20 Performances

Why Isn't Özil Playing?


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GDeep™

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Looking at his absence history under Wenger, it was normally the odd game here or there and then he was right back in the next game, felt like a breather if anything or genuinely a back issue or the flu.
 

Trilly

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Looking at his absence history under Wenger, it was normally the odd game here or there and then he was right back in the next game, felt like a breather if anything or genuinely a back issue or the flu.
Yeah maybe a back thing that simply can't be cured and means he just can't play as often as others.

Would explain why its gotten worse as he has gotten older as well. He's probably on the stardawg self-medicating at home.
 

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Proper dodgy isn't it.

Back problems can be chronic I guess but I would expect a football club to be able to get to the bottom of them with the millions they invest in health care.

I guess I still just about believe the official line from the club but if in the future we find out he was chronically depressed or something then I wouldn't be surprised, not one bit.
Even before he was given the contract, he used to be dropped from the squad. You'd think the club would have withdrew the contract if he was clinically depressed.

I don't buy the "depression" explanation. Maybe Wenger dropped him because he wasn't prepared for games?

Why would Wenger drop him due to back problem or illness and then play him 3 days later?

https://www.espn.com/soccer/club/ar...-playmaker-missing-through-sickness-is-common
 

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Even before he was given the contract, he used to be dropped from the squad. You'd think the club would have withdrew the contract if he was clinically depressed.

I don't buy the "depression" explanation. Maybe Wenger dropped him because he wasn't prepared for games?

Why would Wenger drop him due to back problem or illness and then play him 3 days later?

https://www.espn.com/soccer/club/ar...-playmaker-missing-through-sickness-is-common

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Yeah I agree that depression is far fetched but it isn't impossible.

I don't think Wenger ever 'dropped' him. Their relationship was too good for that, there's something going on that Emery didn't handle as well, doesn't really seem like Arteta has the patience either.
 

GDeep™

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Even before he was given the contract, he used to be dropped from the squad. You'd think the club would have withdrew the contract if he was clinically depressed.

I don't buy the "depression" explanation. Maybe Wenger dropped him because he wasn't prepared for games?

Why would Wenger drop him due to back problem or illness and then play him 3 days later?

https://www.espn.com/soccer/club/ar...-playmaker-missing-through-sickness-is-common
Dropping him for one game and then coming straight back in doesn’t make sense though.

Those odd games he was missing were most likely breathers. Wenger even recently said he would let Özil miss training for the week and just play him in the match, as once he was fit he was ready. They call this man management.
 
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GDeep™

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I don't think Wenger ever 'dropped' him. Their relationship was too good for that, there's something going on that Emery didn't handle as well, doesn't really seem like Arteta has the patience either.
I think he might be delicate. Could be one of those guys who needs to be pulled out and given a rest, given the week off training. Wenger might have allowed that but Emery might not manage as such.

Where it gets weird then is Arteta, Özil played like nearly every game before lockdown, had the wage issue, and is now not featuring at all.
 

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Proper dodgy isn't it.

Back problems can be chronic I guess but I would expect a football club to be able to get to the bottom of them with the millions they invest in health care.

I guess I still just about believe the official line from the club but if in the future we find out he was chronically depressed or something then I wouldn't be surprised, not one bit.
Think back... Specialists were saying ages ago that he spends too much time sitting down playing Fortnite. Not saying that's the cause, but it wont help. They calculated that he spends 5 hours a day playing it. At the end of the day, most back problems for sports people are Sciatic related, but we've heard no word on the cause--only what could agitate it.

On the depression theory ... I reckon if has ever been diagnosed as being a sufferer, he'd have gone public about it by now as not doing so just makes things more difficult for him.
 

Oxeki

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I may be wrong, but if he was depressed, won't constantly dropping him from the squad on matchday exacerbate the depression?

I don't buy that speculation that he's suffering from depression. It doesn't explain a lot of things.
 

Ciscoo

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Could all be BS ofc but the more you think about it, why wouldn't footballers end up being drug addicts, they literally have the perfect lifestyle to enable it.

It’s probably just the ridiculous amount of luck it would take to cover it up.


‘EXCLUSIVE: I spent a week in rehab with Jack Wilshere’. The rags would be falling over themselves :lol:
 
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Jury

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I remember a period where I live--must have been around 2004--when crack heads were walking around with 5 litre petrol cans making out they needed money for fuel. Hilarious when you think about it. Although there's usually a sad story behind most cases of drug addiction, I've always found crack heads a great source of amusement.
 

GDeep™

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Depression is still a taboo subject with current footballers, in other sports they are maybe more open to speaking about it, cricket or boxing etc.

I mean, speaking about such stuff maybe puts your place in the team under extreme scrutiny if you hit a bad patch, and then football social media isn’t the most sympathetic place. Then is the “he’s on 200k a week, what’s he got to be depressed about” crowd.

Not that I think depression is related to the Özil situation, nothing to suggest it is, I’m just talking generally.
 

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Then is the “he’s on 200k a week, what’s he got to be depressed about” crowd.

Not that I think depression is related to the Özil situation, nothing to suggest it is, I’m just talking generally.
he couldn't handle two seasons of Emery. Even i would get depressed playing under that guy

“Wallah you are not a coach.”
 

Tosker

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constant back pain is a reason many people become addicted to pain killers ........ who knows what the truth is, but I expect it'll emerge one day
 

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constant back pain is a reason many people become addicted to pain killers ........ who knows what the truth is, but I expect it'll emerge one day
Are you saying he's addicted to opioids? Big call.
 

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Dropping him for one game and then coming straight back in doesn’t make sense though.

Those odd games he was missing were most likely breathers. Wenger even recently said he would let Özil miss training for the week and just play him in the match, as once he was fit he was ready. They call this man management.

They call this pampering
 
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