Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
I mean what a ridiculous thing to say - Özil created chance after chance after chance (stats back it up but I wouldn't want to bore you). ie he actually did his ****ing job. To suggest otherwise is just wrong. Yes it ended badly and different managers have different ideas but he was undoubtedly a success for the first few seasons
Yes, and lots of those chances came from flicks and perfectly-weighted passes, often with him giving the eyes one way before passing it the other.

Basically, it went wrong when Santi got injured and Alexis was swapped with Mhikki so the other two he played triangles with weren't there.

If we could have signed Auba at the start of that season instead of Laca {thus keeping OG as plan B} then we'd have played better at the start of that year and might have kept Alexis. If Santi hadn't been deaded we'd have been close to a decent team.

But imagine how many Ozil could have made with Auba to chase his through balls as well as OG to head in his set pieces.