Ozil - The Özil Thread

I always was a fan of his but tonite he played a more AM role and he was immens for Germany...saf likes to buy these type of players and i see him as an ideal sigining since he has flair, strength and pace to cope in the epl

THOUGHTS?

Actually, SAF doesn't like to buy midfielders in the Oezil mould, but I'd have him at United.
He still isn't the finished article, but the skills - and more importanly - the vision, creativity and confidence are there.
Also needs to become more consistent and needs more expereienced, but all that can be taught at Carrington

There were a few occasions where he was too eager to impress and didn't pass or passed too late, but still had a very good game.

there was also one occasion where Germany were 3v3 on the aussie defense and Oezil kept running through the centre next to Klose, when he should have made a diagonal run to split the defene and draw a defender wide, but like I said, all that can be taught and he's still very young.

Yup, he's a good player who will improve. The Germans have got a very good team, I'd take a few of their players at Utd.

Mueller would be my top signing and then Marin!

Muller seemed much better in a wider role than what I saw of him in the CL. Ozil was top notch too, looks like Zamora though yikes

Ozil looked very sharp. Made great runs, didn't always do it in the final third, though.

He lingered offside or his touch let him down, should've scored that one goal Neil cleared off the line.

However it was a fantastic performance & he's only 21. He'll get even better. Scary.

He's been brilliant for Weder Bremen over the past couple of seasons so I wasn't surprised with how well he played last night. He would be a fantastic signing for us, but I wouldn't bet against Real, Barca, Inter and maybe even Arsenal making a move for him very soon.

Marin and Ozil are both class, unfortunately i can't see us moving for either

This article is half a year old but is still insightful.

Mesut Özil streets ahead of rivals to inspire Werder to greater heights



A masterful display at Freiburg confirmed Mesut Özil's status as the best player in the league, a one-man source of creativity
Mesut Özil streets ahead of rivals to inspire Werder to greater heights | Raphael Honigstein | Football | guardian.co.uk


Twenty years ago, German football hailed Olaf Thon as "the last street footballer". Mehmet Scholl, Bernd Schneider, Sebastian Deisler and Lukas Podolski were the next "last street footballers", and now it's Mesut Özil's turn to be considered the sole survivor of a dying breed.


But the label doesn't quite fit: the Bremen midfielder didn't learn his trade between BMWs and VWs but on a ring-fenced dusty pitch without goalnets in deprived Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck. The children ("Bosnians, Lebanese, Turkish, a few Germans") called it Affenkäfig (monkey cage) and in this enclosure, Özil quickly climbed to the top of the tree. "Everyone tried out Zinedine Zidane's tricks but I found I could do them quite easily," the son of Turkish parents remembered modestly. Playing against older, stronger kids, he learned to persist. "My technique and feeling for the ball is the Turkish side to my game," he said, "the discipline, attitude and always-give-your-all is the German part."


This Saturday, the 21-year-old helped Werder to a stunning 6-0 win away at Freiburg with one goal and four rather exquisite assists. It was another masterful performance that confirmed Özil's status as the best player in the league at the moment, a one-man source of creativity and surprise. Operating behind the strikers, he's both a playmaker and an auxiliary winger; his intelligent runs provide the width that should be missing in Thomas Schaaf's diamond formation. And his passing couldn't be finer if he was folding kings against aces, every single time. The European Under-21 winner who destroyed England in the final has been working hard in the gym, too: a couple of extra kilos of abdominal muscle have given him more balance. Need to know more? He's now scored six in 12 Bundesliga games and made nine goals for his team-mates. "No wonder Hamburg's Piotr Trochowski is worried about his World Cup ticket," wrote Frankfurter Rundschau.


Bremen are now unbeaten in 20 games in all competition. They're genuine title contenders and even Schaaf and Klaus Allofs, two men who are always happy to downplay their side's chances, admit as much. "It would be nice to be in first place after 34 games," said the sporting director. "King Özil guides Werder to the title," was Bild's gushing verdict. Only 18 months ago, the tabloid was busy denouncing the young man as "greedy pro" said to be "remote-controlled by his agent and father" when he refused to sign a new deal for Schalke 04. The ex-general manager Andreas Müller, who many fingered as the instigator of that media campaign, hinted that the player was afraid of the competition posed by Albert Streit and Ze Roberto II. (It's OK to laugh) He sold him to Werder, for the less than princely sum of €4.8m (£4.3m) (continue laughing).


The first full-blown German international to recite Koran verses before kick-off will be worth at least five times as much by the time the World Cup starts if he continues improving at this rate. "I have high standards, I know he can play even better," said Allofs. He will have a hard time to convince Özil to extend his contract beyond 2011 though. Mesut's talent is so great that he will soon feel caged in the Westerstadion. Arsène Wenger, it seems, has already donned a wig for the kid: Özil's agent Reza Fazeli has confirmed that Arsenal have been in touch.
There is, however, also a decent chance he'll first move south to step into the void that a certain Franck Ribéry will be leaving in the Allianz Arena in the summer. Even Bayern will surely notice Özil's class and be forced to act – after he scores a couple of goals against them next year.

ive started admiring him since the european cup under 21, especially after he thrashed england in the final. but it has to be something special for us to get such a highly rated player, so i really cant see us getting him or any other big player not untill the glazers f*ck off

Must admit his forward runs were brilliant. Very impressed by him last night. Had he of scored that chance in the first half then the world would be talking about him. It's what the World Cup is all about isn't it. Impressing on the big stage. I saw him play in the u21 championships and he was good then but to be a truely class player you need to do it at the highest level. Albeit against Australia, i think he showed signs of it.

He issent that great, he played very good yesterday but he's not yet ready to play for united.
I think Andersson is much better.

he was immense yesterday!a player that could get a transfer to a bigger team through the good tournament that he is bound to have!

Your joking right?

I think Ozil is the better player right now but Anderson has got more potential.

The commentator said if he keeps that up he'll be player of the tournament - he certainly impressed me and I'd love to see him at United.

Never even heard of him til I saw this thread / the highlights from yesterday....

Looks a good player on first impressions, could do with seeing more of him...

try and dig up some highlights from u21 championships last year.he was amazing and destroyed england in the final

Cheers dude, will do

Marin? :rofl:
He's too weak for England.
All defenders would hurt them

And he's a little pooper. He falls often - much without any touch.
Take Özil. Mesut is lots of better than "Pimmelmarinchen" or "Frettchen" as we here in Cologne saying.