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Mesut coming out of his shell?

est

It's ridiculous how he doesn't show any signs of rustiness. Everything is on point and perfect with him.

marv3llous

He just might be the love of my life.

Mesut Özil ‏@MesutOzil1088 3h
Flight attendant M1Ö reporting for duty and assisting the helicopter pilot as good as possible!

goon

I'm telling you guys but none of you seem to believe me, he and Ramsey are going to win us the league this season.

Gazza M

very clever player. spends the first 10-15 minutes feeling the game out, and then starts chipping away at the opponents weak spots

innervisionscm

otfgoon wrote:
I'm telling you guys but none of you seem to believe me, he and Ramsey are going to win us the league this season.

They'll be our most important players if we do.

flobaba

If Theo gets the most goals, then he'll have been our most important.

;-)

Rex

We need at least one more reliable source of goals other than Alexis. With hindsight, it is easy to say that goals usually dry up for Giroud for stretches each season. Walcott, on the other hand, has been a reliable goal scorer for a few years now - when he has been fit.

Unfortunately we have so many players with doubts over their ability to stay fit! Walcott, Chambo, Wilshere, Gibbs, Arteta, Koscielny, Özil. You would also probably now have to add Ramsey and Welbeck to that list. In fact, only Monreal, Alexis, Mertesacker, Giroud, Cech, Sneezey and Cazorla have proven to rarely need time off due to injury. We desperately need a break on that front if we are to have any chance at all to be in a proper fight for the title.

Qwiss

Only one of those fit players you mentioned is under 29 too, and he's a back up.

QuincyAbeyie

Qwiss! wrote:
Only one of those fit players you mentioned is under 29 too, and he's a back up.

Alexis is not a back up tbh. 🙂

Mirth

Rex wrote:
With hindsight, it is easy to say that goals usually dry up for Giroud for stretches each season. Walcott, on the other hand, has been a reliable goal scorer for a few years now - when he has been fit.

Has he? I always remember him being an extremely streaky player.

Klaus

Very streaky. People tend to forget this because he's so often injured, but he has dry spells that are lasting for several months.

Big Willie

Streaky or not a 1 in 2 game player like Walcott has been, despite playing on the wing most of the time, is nothing to be scoffed at.

Klaus

No one's scoffing at it. It's just a bit rich to suggest Giroud is a streaky player and then claim that Walcott is not. Position has got nothing to do with it, because he has played as an auxiliary winger every time he's been on a hot run too. He just stopped performing for long spells in-between. It's a problem for someone who offers very little aside from his end product.

goon

I don't know, I don't think he's really suffered from 'streakyness' for the past three years, albeit it's difficult to tell when he's been injured or being eased back in from one for a lot of that time. But to me he seems to get into superb scoring positions on multiple occasions whenever he's on the pitch these days. Him movement has improved loads since he was in his early 20's, coupled with the fact that we now often play with the likes of Ozil, Santi, Aaron, Jack and Sanchez who are all capable of picking him out, I think you'd find him a lot more consistent than he used to be.

Mirth

otfgoon wrote:
I don't know, I don't think he's really suffered from 'streakyness' for the past three years, albeit it's difficult to tell when he's been injured or being eased back in from one for a lot of that time. But to me he seems to get into superb scoring positions on multiple occasions whenever he's on the pitch these days. Him movement has improved loads since he was in his early 20's, coupled with the fact that we now often play with the likes of Ozil, Santi, Aaron, Jack and Sanchez who are all capable of picking him out, I think you'd find him a lot more consistent than he used to be.

This is true, there's definitely hope for Walcott and, based on the way he finished the season, I would be comfortable with him being our main striker.

But he's patently not been a reliable goal scorer for us so far when compared to Giroud. Both of them have been equally streaky.

Qwiss

I think when Walcott if fit he's a pretty consistent goal scorer. He's just never fit for very long.

Biggus

Well thats right, when people talk about a players end product they usually quote minutes on the pitch statistics, but if a player is absent due to poor form or injury it amounts to the same thing- Lack of effectiveness.

lorddulaarsenal

So much bull shit in the press today about Juve making a £27m bid for Ozil.

As if we'd ever sell him for that amount

JazzG

Alfonso wrote:
He looks a complete different player than he did 16/17 months ago.

Playing with a a smile on his face as opposed to looking like a guy who didn't look like he enjoyed his football.

My main criticism was that he was not pro-active enough, this has changed in the last 6 months.

While his mentality is different one of the biggest changes is his physique, looks a hell of a lot fitter and stronger now. He is finishing matches strongly now whereas before you could see he was struggling a bit.

marv3llous

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
So much bull shit in the press today about Juve making a £27m bid for Ozil.

As if we'd ever sell him for that amount

Honestly, one of the most stupid rumours around.

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