Wenger will 'Arshavin' Ozil

Excuses. Excuses. Excuses. Being played out wide isn't the reason Ozil is sloppy with the ball. Didn't accept that excuse for Arshavin either, and certainly not for Ozil.

If only we'd got Suarez/Higuain last summer and got Cesc this summer

WENGER IN SHOCK MENTAL STRENGTH CONFESSION

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29190718

It is a valid excuse though. He's incredibly one-footed, so putting him on his natural (or unnatural side since he's a playmaker) greatly limits his passing options, which results in him squandering possession more cheaply.

You can perhaps level some criticism at him for being so one-footed, but that's something Wenger should have realised when signing him/finding a place for him in the side.

It's the equivalent of putting Fabregas as a right-wing-forward and wondering why he's not doing well.

Wenger needs to play him centrally or just drop him. Same for cazorla. Our team looks unbalanced when they go wide, and each are pretty much ineffective. I'd love to see us with proper pace down both flanks, and players who are comfortable wide, so we're not always contesting the middle. But I don't see wenger playing that way. Always insists on one wide man, then one creative player on the left, who just try's to cut in. Been ages since we've had a good left wing.

comment by The Year of the Ox (U7080)
posted 4 minutes ago
Wenger needs to play him centrally or just drop him. Same for cazorla. Our team looks unbalanced when they go wide, and each are pretty much ineffective. I'd love to see us with proper pace down both flanks, and players who are comfortable wide, so we're not always contesting the middle. But I don't see wenger playing that way. Always insists on one wide man, then one creative player on the left, who just try's to cut in. Been ages since we've had a good left wing.
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Completely agree

Hopefully when Theo is back we will see Sanchez on left , Theo on right and Welbs down the middle. Ozil will have to fight for his place in the centre with Rambo, Jack and Santi. Ozil is a waste of space on the left. Everyone can see it except Le Prof .

The whole Arshavin was ruined thing is annoying. He simply wasn't good enough to adapt to a system and then lost the motivation to be at the very top and got fat. The team is more important than any individual. We should never change our whole system for one player. A team is nothing without the ingrained system of playing that has been built over years and years ala United under fergie, Liverpool under Rodgers and of course us

When u buy the world's best no. 10, surely u'd play him where he's most effective, not on the wing where he offers nothing and is bound to get slated

comment by When will Eboue get a statue outside the emirates??? (U19165)
posted 44 minutes ago
When u buy the world's best no. 10, surely u'd play him where he's most effective, not on the wing where he offers nothing and is bound to get slated


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Who is this world's best number 10 you speak of?