Mesut Özil: 2019/20 Performances

[Riou]

"Özil is not an asshole" ...Lukas Podolski, 2020

 

[kash2]

Eagerly awaiting the return of the king to the centre of pitch at the emirates. With Özil feeding Auba / Pepe / Laca, its going to be amazing.

 

[roz]

Eagerly awaiting the return of the king to the centre of pitch at the emirates. With Özil feeding Auba / Pepe / Laca, its going to be amazing.

 

[Football Manager]

Eagerly awaiting the return of the king to the centre of pitch at the emirates. With Özil feeding Auba / Pepe / Laca, its going to be amazing.

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[kash2]

 

[Ash10]

Eagerly awaiting the return of the king to the centre of pitch at the emirates. With Özil feeding Auba / Pepe / Laca, its going to be amazing.

 

[Jury]

Nothing’s changed. The ideal scenario, as it’s always been, is Arteta seeing what he wants to see from Özil and deciding to try and get something out of him in his final year, because he’s not open to anything else. Doubt that will happen though.

 

[Moah]

Why us the club not responding to his accusations?

He told a solid story and there is no reason not to believe him as the club isn't denying what he said.

They don't need to directly respond, they can just show how the money taken from the players is being used.

 

[kash2]

Arsène Wenger: When you love football, you want to see Mesut Özil in action

 

[Ash10]

Arsène Wenger: When you love football, you want to see Mesut Özil in action

Said 2 years ago

 

[Monstar-Gunn4r]

Come on, man!!! Fag Ends?

Do you smoke Corks?

Me no speaky no lingo

 

[Football Manager]

Arsène Wenger: When you love football, you want to see Mesut Özil in action

1st problem:
He was not always in action. Only switch on in the final third. No action in the build up phase. No action in the defensive phase. Gone missing for 89 mins. Switch on to action mode for 1 min, to try getting those assists in the final third.

2nd problem:
He has always been inconsistent. No action for a few games, then make a good action for one game.

To sum it up, you will never know when he will be up for action.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

@Football Manager , can you let us know your feelings towards Özil?

 

[krackpot]

Me no speaky no lingo

fag ends drown easily. Your assertion is wrong.

 

[Football Manager]

@Football Manager , can you let us know your feelings towards Özil?

He might be a good person.

I don’t really care about any players political stance.

I don’t care about what a player has said. Do you think what someone says in front of a camera or posted on Facebook can be trusted?
Arteta can say elneny is a good player in front of the camera, you know, just being nice. But is he really thinking this way? Can’t be proved. Anything posted on Facebook can be all PR stuff. So I don’t really care, and don’t think anyone should care.

It’s Özil’s right to wait for the contract to end and not taking a pay cut. So it’s not him to be blamed on this.

What I actually judge is his performance on the pitch, because I don’t care anything other than this. And I have been posted on what I think about him as a football player.

 

[Football Manager]

@Football Manager , can you let us know your feelings towards Özil?

Here are the summary of what I think of Özil. If you want to know.

Why is that only Özil always being criticised for not defending, when most #10 in the world are not good at defending too?

This is because Özil’s main problem is not even in defending/tracking back. Other #10 would heavily involved in the build up phase, and create the difference in the final third phase. They do hell lots of other stuff when they are not defending. Özil would be invisible in defence and attack, just focus on the last pass in the final third. So if he doesn’t make those pass, he is absolutely nothing on the pitch.

I never rate players who can only operate well in one phase, but being a tactical liability in other phases.

For all of the above (including the last few posts), I am not talking about the “declining” Özil. I am taking about the Özil who he always was. From day one he was here, he has all these flaws in his game.

Why the Özil now is the same Özil as 5 years ago, but he is so useless in the current football world?

Because modern tactics has drastically changed, especially in the past 10 years. Despite possessing the same ability, his weaknesses are being magnified more and more as tactics developed over the years. As a result, he is more and more useless as a player, despite having the same passing and first touch ability.

In this tactically detail orientated era, Özil is a huge tactical liability. He can only operates well in one phase of the game (in the final third). And if our team are struggling to get into the final third, he won’t contribute to help our team progressing into this phase. His problem is far from just defending.

These weaknesses of Özil was always there. Even if todays Özil is the same Özil 5 years ago, he will still be out of Arteta’s plan.

Since tactics has started to become more and more complex in the early 2010, there will only be one fate of these kind of players.

(I'm not talking about other #10. Most of them have the dribbling ability and they always helping the team in general play, which makes them still very useful players in todays game. I'm talking about players who focus on just one phase of the game, failing to contribute in other phases.)

Some articles portraits Özil as a victim of traditional #10 in modern football. His fans like to make excuses for him: “It’s the player type that is not suitable anymore in modern football. It’s not Özil to be blamed.”

But this is just not true.

Özil is very different to most #10. Most #10 are not just final third players, they can dribble in tight space for fun, and they involved heavily in the general play. Özil is so unique/limited that he only has himself to blame for not making it in modern football.

Why was Özil so inconsistent even in his madrid/wenger’s days?

Özil was inconsistent for a reason. He is just like walcott. Their overall stats looks impressive, but they are **** if you actually watch their performance on the pitch. This inconsistency is a result of them being limited players.

The problem with them is that they detaches themselves from the build up phase. They just focus on the final assist/finish. Since they are not actively involved in the build up phase, we didn’t have numerical advantage and unable to create in the midfield. Kaka, Silva, kdb, iniesta, modric......they are all heavily involved in the build up phase to help maintain possession and create space in the midfield. Özil would make a simple pass and burst up to the final third, leaving his teammates Cazorla and others to build up.

If our other players are extremely capable/lucky enough to get through the build up phase with numerical disadvantage, then there will be the use of Özil/walcott in the final third (these are matches that they will look good and up their stats). But if not, they will look invisible for the whole match, because we can’t keep possession and unable to progress the ball up, this is why many of you think they are inconsistent.

What actually happened is, their lack of involvement in the build up, would hurt our team from progressing the ball up the pitch. Which limited their chance to shine in the final third. So at the end it’s their own fault for their inconsistency.

 

[Macho]

 

[GDeep™]

Why us the club not responding to his accusations?

He told a solid story and there is no reason not to believe him as the club isn't denying what he said.

They don't need to directly respond, they can just show how the money taken from the players is being used.

What has he accused the club of? We’re still waiting for the club to tell us why Arsenal are the only club in the PL to force a pay cut.

 

[sdotzdot]

@Football Manager you're a strange lad but I like how pure you are. Don’t ever let your innocence go my friend.

Keep on fighting the good fight.

 

[Macho]

He dgaf he will copy paste his Özil deep dive at any opportunity. Pretty sure blaze of glory was trolling.