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Mesut coming out of his shell?

Klaus

Final ball has improved lately. It's at least 5/10 now.

innervisionscm

Aguero's the best player in England. Özil is the second.

Shady

Wenger said Ozil is entering his golden years, and I think it's true.

He's become a better player than he was in Germany and Spain. Supreme.

Claudius

He's doing this with an unsettled and unconvincing front 3. Kwalitee.
He put that ball right where Giroud's head was going to be. With the correct speed and spin. F me.

dreamlord

Yeah, but the mind boggling thing is that those kind of balls are bread and butter for players like Ozil and Silva IMO.

Qwiss

He's in great form at the moment. I hope he can stay injury free this season.

Burnwinter

Don't know if it's just me, but his apparent work rate seems to be up a level in the past month or so. He's always influential but he seems more committed than before. Lot of emotion in his game today.

est

Oh, definitely, Burnsy. The difference is massive.

Burnwinter

Good, I was pretty sure I wasn't imagining it. He looks a real athlete at the moment as well.

Stat floating around today says he has the lowest games/assist of any current Prem player by the way.

DiabyKungFu

Burnwinter wrote:
Stat floating around today says he has the lowest games/assist of any current Prem player by the way.

Not current players; that's all-time players.

Clrnc

Burnwinter wrote:
Don't know if it's just me, but his apparent work rate seems to be up a level in the past month or so. He's always influential but he seems more committed than before. Lot of emotion in his game today.

I think his work rate has been much improved since the turn of the year when he came back from injury. He just looks stronger on the ball.

y va marquer

He picked out some glorious passes today, he looks settled into the team now.

Ray

Since 2008 assists top two in European leagues.

Messi 98
Ozil 93

Supposedly in all competitions and international football combined he has the highest ever.

Lukazan

Burnwinter wrote:
Good, I was pretty sure I wasn't imagining it. He looks a real athlete at the moment as well.

Stat floating around today says he has the lowest games/assist of any current Prem player by the way.

Plays like the club means something to him now. It's all speculation of course but I think he was in a big sulk over being sold by Real Madrid for a while.

Clrnc

Michael Cox ‏@Zonal_Marking 12m12 minutes ago
Wenger: "If you love to watch football, you love to watch Ozil"

Rosicky mark II

jones

Ray wrote:
Since 2008 assists top two in European leagues.

Messi 98
Ozil 93

Supposedly in all competitions and international football combined he has the highest ever.

Pretty sure the second part was fake, the stat said something about overtaking Riquelme who was never 1st in Europe. There's also little chance he's already overtaken the likes of Xavi or probably even Henry.

Also I've seen the stats a lot of times but how absurd is that Messi has the most assists to go with the roughly 2,000 goals he scored in that period.

Mirth

Messi ruins everything by being Lionel Messi.

Gunner89

Ozil's offical website tracks his assists. Now on something like 170.

He's the highest assister in the premier league now this season with 7.

If somebody can find a reliable source for Messi then I'd take those into consideration obviously.

Xavi wouldn't be near any assist list. His role was quite deep and involved building tempo and dictating play.

Sicario

A truly inspirational player playing some of the best football of his life.

I watched a young Ozil play for Bremen (I used to work over there) and you could always tell he was going to be a top, top player.

If he manages to add some goals to his game he can be close to Zidane levels in terms of quality.

If we win the title he will win FA Footballer of the Year.

Claudius

I hope his staunch defenders in the past two seasons can recognize the difference. This is what a 40m pound playmaker looks like. This is what we wanted consistently before. It's not just the passing. It's the all round two way effort. Against Bayern he had more interceptions than anyone else on the field, and I suspect he outrun the lot of them as well. The skill and application is giving us an otherworldly asset.

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