″ It is a difficult message for Arsenal fans.
I am completely disappointed that I was not registered for the Premier and Europa League.
Since I signed my last contract in 2018, I have shown my loyalty and commitment to the club that I love and I am very saddened that it is not reciprocated. "Mikel Arteta, Arsenal manager, has hinted at the German's lack of commitment:" People have to step up and be responsible ”.
Mesut Özil (Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 32 years old) communicated on social networks what he cannot express on the pitch with a ball at his feet.
One of the last great talents of German football, world champion in 2014, has hit rock bottom.
His entire career has been a permanent struggle.
Against himself.
Against his closest environment, family in the figure of a father included, and against his neighbor: he always considered himself misunderstood.
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From Schalke 04, his first home as a professional, he left when he was 20 years old.
Among other reasons, because when they signed Rakitic they gave him the 10 that he thought he deserved.
He signed for Werder Bremen and, under the protection of the German team in which he already shone at the 2010 World Cup, he got engaged that August with Real Madrid.
As he recognized years later in his biography,
The Magic of the Game
, five clubs were interested in him after South Africa: Arsenal, Manchester United, Bayern, Real Madrid and Barça.
“When Barça called me, I asked why Guardiola was not in the negotiations and they told me he was on vacation.
He didn't send me a message that he loved me.
Instead, Mourinho fought a lot for me.
He was very convincing, caring and put in effort.
It was completely the opposite.
That is why I decided on José and Real Madrid ”.
Three years in white.
He landed proclaiming that Zidane, then already in the club in his role as a link between the presidency and the squad, had been his youth idol.
"I was especially nervous when I met him."
The memory that Özil left at the Bernabéu was positive.
Both soccer and personally.
Those who lived with him every day remember him as a reserved but friendly boy.
“The problems that could have were the thing of his father, Mustafa, who manipulated more than taking his son.
He did not get involved in anything ", they confess from the noble area of the entity.
Jorge Valdano was the club's sporting director upon arrival.
“We had a meeting with him, Mourinho and I, and we convinced him.
He was a very attractive player, talented, with a lot of presence in games.
When he left later, I thought it hadn't been a good idea to let him go, at his age he could only grow up.
I do not understand the reasons for the decline that it has had in recent years, but they always tend to be derived from personal reasons rather than football.
I have not followed his career in detail, but when he arrived he expressed his natural talent in an attractive and effective way.
For his age, he should now be in his prime and more with his characteristics.
A player more technical than wear and tear ”.
He always moved close to Sergio Ramos, his great reference in the dressing room, on trips and in public events of the squad, without neglecting a Khedira who protected him.
In the booth no religious or political approach was ever heard.
He expressed himself in English, he struggled with Spanish, especially to communicate with Ramos.
Until his confrontation with Mourinho, in the second season, at the Real Madrid-Deportivo halftime (9-30-2012), he was never considered a conflictive player.
That afternoon he was about to come to blows with his coach.
The confrontation was explained in his book.
He says that Mou opened fire.
—Mou.
"You know what?
You are a kid.
Go to the shower, we don't need you.
You think two pretty passes are enough.
You are very lazy when you go to duels.
You think you are so good that giving 50 percent is enough.
I want you to play as well as you can, to go to duels like a man.
Do you know how you look in split balls?
No?
I will show you!".
—Özil.
Then she stood on tiptoe with her arms close to her body, put on little snouts and started skipping around the locker room.
He stopped.
He looked at me with his dark brown eyes.
I leaned back.
It was like the look of two boxers before the first round.
I was just waiting for my answer.
At the time she hated him even though she actually adored him.
I threw the shirt at his feet before telling him that he will play in my place: If you are so great, you play!
There you go.
Put it on.
Luck".
—Mou.
"You give up?
You are a coward.
What do you want?
Take a hot shower and wash your hair?
You want to be alone?
Or do you prefer to show your teammates, the fans and me what you can do?
You are a crybaby, go to the shower.
We don't need you ”.
—Özil.
“I grabbed my towel and walked past him on my way to the shower, without saying a word to him.
Later I understood why he had behaved like this.
Deep down it was easy to understand, he wanted me to give it my all, to get out of my comfort zone, he wanted to push me in such a way that my evolution would never stop.
I apologized for my behavior towards Sergio Ramos and the rest of the team ”.
Sergio's response as an apology to his great friend was to take the shirt off the ground, put it under his and play the entire second half with 10 below 4. Visible.
His intention was to score a goal and show his friend's name to the entire stadium.
A friendship that was confirmed when the German left Real Madrid on his way to Arsenal.
For Sergio it was also his last white shirt with a special dedication.
"For my brother, Sergio."
Ramos wore it on social networks.
"The shirt of your last game I will always keep well, friend"
Gate for Bale
Without his transfer to Arsenal, Real Madrid would not have been able to sign Bale.
At the time it was the best sale of the white club in its history.
About 50 million euros.
Ozil, from London, spent a good time sending winks to Real Madrid.
For him she would never have left.
He blamed his father and then representative for his departure.
“He lacked the experience to negotiate with a professional like Florentino Pérez and things turned upside down.
Leaving Real Madrid was the most difficult decision of my life.
He dreamed of winning the Champions League.
My stage was not over.
My father is not perfect and the negotiations were great for him.
It was not greed, we asked what we considered fair.
Being stubborn with Florentino is not the best thing, ”he says in his biography.
Arséne Wenger, Arsenal manager, gave him affection and Özil responded by exposing all his talent on the field.
He was successful on the pitch, but his problems reappeared off the field.
A photo with Erdogan, the Turkish president, turned the guts of many Germans and the player did not hesitate to leave the national team after the 2018 World Cup. He complained of racism.
"I am German when we win and an immigrant when we lose."
The squabbles with his club were constant.
Some of great political and economic significance.
Like when he defended the
Ouighouris
, a minority Muslim community in China, and an international conflict was almost created.
He also refused to cut his salary in the middle of the pandemic because they did not explain the destination of the money that they were going to earn.
Bernardo Schuster, also with a recognized reputation as a rebel in his years of maximum footballing splendor, takes the side of his compatriot in the critical situation he is experiencing.
"It is unfair.
You cannot treat a footballer who is also a world champion that way.
His situation should be fixed in another way, not preventing him from fulfilling his profession.
He is a special player.
Left-handed, good technique, vision of the game and of the last pass.
These types of quality players need a little more freedom on the pitch.
I compare him with Isco, with James.
He and Götze were the last great talents of German football and curiously both have reached a strange situation at an age that due to their conditions and way of understanding the game should be in their prime.
Özil has been given a lot of cane in Germany due to extra-sports and political problems ”.
Without being able to play the Premier and the Europa League at least until the winter market, Özil only has to train and from his social networks cheer on Arsenal in each and every one of the games he plays.
It is free on June 30.
Until then he will not play, but will earn almost 400,000 euros per week.