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LOL Play football manager much?
Not properly since '13.
LOL Play football manager much?
Bizarre isn't it, Özil is probably our best and only truly World class player but he just doesn't seem to fit in any formation I think of except 4-2-3-1 as a classic number 10. Unfortunately I don't think our midfield options are strong enough to play a 2 in midfield and one of Auba/Lacazette has to make way or get shunted to the wing.
Like you I would either sell Özil and buy a player who can play wide forward in a front 3 or sell Ramsey and play Özil in the midfield 3 with Xhaka and Torreira. I just don't see a way to play both of them together regularly.
Cant see Özil leaving at all, I personally wouldnt mind if he went but the contract the club have given him is a huge problem if we were to even attempt selling him.
A club would need to come in for him with a decent fee and be willing to pay him similar to what hes on now, I'm going to take a guess and say that no clubs really came in for him when he was potentially available on a free and willing to offer or match the high wages before he signed otherwise he wouldnt be here, the oppurtunity for clubs to sign Özil without a fee has passed, cant see anyone paying up now and then the wages.
Totally agree, never going to happen. I can't think of one club who would pay him £350k per week. We have him until his contract expires I think, just don't feel like he fits in anywhere.
Mbappé!
Was it last summer when we were linked with him?Impossible, as delightful as it would be to actually pull it off.
Was it last summer when we were linked with him?
I believe so, when it came to light that Arséne visited him at home personally to recruit him.
There were rumors of us bidding 110 M last summer I think.
Believe it or not, the summer before last summer, when United signed Martial, we tried. We could have signed Mbappé for 300k(I think it was, pretty bizarre figure, must be higher) but he thought him self he was to young to leave.