Seeing özil play in Madrid at his prime was absolutely beautiful

2010-2015 Ozil was unstoppable!

He wasn’t dropped for “footballing reasons” he was dropped for speaking out against the treatment towards Muslims in China.

Even though I'm German and I think that he's a great player, I'm glad that he left the German national team. After all the racism he experienced it was the best decision. He's a legend!

I think people only remember ozil for only his arsenal days. People forget how insane he was for Bremen and Madrid as well. One of the most disrespected players in modern day football.

Definitely the best playmaker I've ever seen in my 20 years of watching football. Real football fans will never forget Mesut Özil. Icon.

I'd say he peaked in 15/16 when he almost broke the assist record, however he's become a victim of the changes in football in recent years where the sole No 10 player has been phased out and everyone now plays high press with 8/10 hybrids.

I love Ozil, watching him is magic. He deserved better.

Tbh ozil has had an amazing career, he's played for one of the biggest clubs on earth, his childhood club and now he's easily walking into a club he's wanted to play for his whole life

Ozil was simply so brilliant. What happened with ozil is very disgusting.Very shameful that people are shut for speaking for human rights.I really want him go to Turkey. Its clear the arsenal and ozil will never getting along now. Its better to join Fenerbache.Everything is there for him.He is loved in Turkey and the maybe he could even play in the UCL. Ozil you will always be remembered❤

He started in Schalke in 2016? C'mon Djellab, get your years sorted out.

Imagine the assists he would’ve had if he had quality players around him

It saddens me how he is being left out of the squad. I dont understand he was playing under areta for a few games but during that tweet incident arsenal shut me down quick. I have to say that most of the arsenal fans needs to take the blame. Especially watching aftv so much negativity toward the player.

In 15/16 Ozil would have smashed the assist record if the clown Giroud didn’t decide not to score for like 6 months

Really enjoyed this. One of the best thing this channel has ever made

Few issues with this video: Ozil vs Sanchez - Sanchez had great individual talent, and saved us a number of points. But he played for himself, there were many instances when attacks would break down simply because he refused to pass to a player in a better position and instead tried to take all the players on. Not sure how true his conflict with Ramsey was but it doesn't seem to unbelievable. He was tactically indisciplined. He also had a terrible half season before he left and was even worse once he moved. Don't think of the two we picked the wrong one. That game against Bayern - pretty sure Ozil won the ball back the most of either team but somehow he's the reason at lost. He's scored or assisted against all of the top six, including barca and Bayern I believe. His many games when he's played have arsenal played well but he hasn't, but when the team play badly he is the one that always gets named. As for him suited to pressing - not his strength but in at least one pl season he was the 2nd highest player to win the ball back in the league, not Arsenal - the league. Both Mouriniho and Wenger have used Ozil in positions for his defensive capabilities because they didn't trust the other creative player in the team. In regards to Emrey I don't remember Ramsey being that in favour with Emrey anymore than Ozil, it was one of my complaints that he didn't use Ramsey when he dropped Ozil. In regards to the pay cut, think it's relevant to say there were 3 players that refused a pay cut, only the player that called out China was called out. And also worth pointing out that Ozil was willing to take a bigger pay cut than the others with certain assurances and /or confirmations. One of the reasons the players took the pay cut was to ensure no one was let go, that clearly didn't happen. As for his decline recently, he was still the highest chances creator and highest chances per minute under Arteta until last few games, despite only playing half the games and despite some of our other creative players no longer being at the club. He has declined but not by the levels a lot of people suggest.

Mesut is a brilliant player. I admire him for standing up for his belief and morals

Mesut’s performances dropped as soon as Santi git injured. It’s was very important for mesut to have another player from deep playing balls into him

I remember being so excited when he arrived and the trio of him Alexis and Cazorla what a trio never understood why Arsenal never strengthened in other areas they should've achieved more but hey what a player also what a sad way to finish but thanks for the memories.

Not an Arsenal legend, but definitely a Football legend. A true artist of the game!

He's such a good human, raising awareness for uyghar Muslims. I dont get why arteta went too far on him, its a disgrace 😢💔

a true idol to many, thank you mesut❤️ my legend

8:25 open to debate? He never played after he said that its quiet clear this is the reason🥱 but y'all keep denying it... arsenal needed 1 thing at that is creativity and ozil is the only player who can provide this

Love these FD explains, really goes in-depth and very informative. Great work guys! 🔥🔥🔥

He hasn't dropped for football reasons hes still a brilliant player who I still think,pray and hope for a renewal of his contract I don't want it to end like this arsenal have been doing our legends dirty

0:45 started at his boyhood club schalke at 2016... you had me lost mate.

he will play for the club that he supported in his chilhood. i think this is the best for him.

mesut used to be one of my favorite players back when he was at real.. being said, after he signed that last huge contract at arsenal, he seemed to not be concerned with working hard and performing consistently AT ALL.. it's obvious he isn't too concerned with his legacy or he wouldn't accept remaining mediocre whilst still having so much more to offer to the game. I am a former athlete, collegiate scholarship athlete, and i understand after playing your whole life and training hard your whole life, that it's easy to lose that drive if you're not totally in love with the game. I think with mesut he isn't in love with the game anymore.. it's just his job and after that huge contract, he wasn't concerned with giving 100% for the club or himself..

Just lost his ambition for the game and never worked on getting better. Naturally immense talent but always rested on just that instead of striving for even better.

Welcome to Fenerbahçe Ozil 💛💙

for a moment, i forgot how good Ozil used to be man. Sad times

As an arsenal fan I'm sad to see him go but I think its a good move for both parties

Before Mesut no one talked about assists, he made it mainstream and now people are obsessed by those stats. A football legend. The word assist will forever be synonymous with Mesut Özil.

Ozil, thanks for the memories and farewell

You’ll never see a guy with his vision or his eyes 👀

Where ever he goes he’ll be class. He’s just got to try.

I think he’s still very good, would love to see him at Juve as a first sub for Dybala. He needs a team that fits his playing style and makes him feel confident

It’s sad. If during his prime he would have played in today’s arsenal squad, it may have been a very different outcome. He together with Odegaard and Xhaka, would have been fantastic. I still think he’s made a big contribution to our club, and Ozil will always be remembered as one of the clubs greats!

Wasted his career by going to Arsenal. I knew that was the wrong move for him.

Favorite player. I really hope he gets an icon in fifa

Özil is a great player He puts his religion before the game what a player ❤ He has now move to Turkey and retired there

I think that was a balanced and fair assessment of a very talented but often divisive individual.

He just started to rise ! See him in the FENERBAHÇE

Love this new video format!

great video. i always on ozil side btw, even though iam an arsenal fan. for me ozil is still one of the best number 10 in the world. pure talent and world class, the number of trophy and also lot of produce assist speak all. shame his legacy at arsenal are come to an end, and end like this. he's not even deserved treatment like this from the club. smh hopefully he'll succed whereever he move. thank you ozil 🙏👍❤️ #Danke

He’s bigger than tottenham

Very few will ever match the Özil 2010-15 if any at all in terms of individual peakness. He produced an average of 0.82 goals or assists per 90 minutes during his time at Real Madrid. In his best season, 2010-2011, his numbers were simply jaw-dropping: - 3376 mins - 4.21 key passes p90 - 23 assists (0.61 assists p90) - 4.83 chances created (key passes/shots created+assists) p90 (Source: managing Madrid) I am no Arsenal fan but I can certainly speak for Özil. He was really let down by the rest of the Arsenal squad during his early arsenal days. Arsenal Probably should have won 2013-14 or 2014-15 title with him in the team. In England, if your team isn't playing well, to escape from any criticism you have to pass the eye test of fans which is "showing passion", "throwing the arms around", "shout" and other intangible bullshits, and he could never pass the test. There's no denying that he had past him prime and regressed since Wenger left but the amount of acute abuses he received from fans, media and pundits alike during those times was beyond contempt. Arsenal fans looked at him like he was some kind of Messi or Ronaldo figure who would single handedly win games for them, which he never was and never have been. At Die Mannschaft and Real Madrid he was surrounded by world class, serial CL and Euro winners and at Arsenal, barring Sanchez, he was surrounded by donkeys. Then came a time when Özil simply stopped giving any fucks. Yes during later phases of his career, consistency was a key issue for him but it wasn't always the cas e. Still in terms of achievements, ability and stats he can match any great number 10 of 2000s. But bunch of ungrateful and outspoken Arsenal fanatics dragged him through the mud to tarnish his legacy forever. I can't do nothing but to wish him luck wherever he goes. Adios Mesut!!

My Legend ❤

he didn't take a pay cut because he does so much charity work and paid wages for other staff members

Great player sad seeing it ended like this :'(

It’s so sad to see what happened to him 😔I wish Arsenal gave him another chance cuz I feel like he could’ve revived his career

The reason I became an arsenal die hard, he will be missed but happy his career can move forward!

Ozil best love from India

Fate no player can escape age I've got nothing bad to say about ozil he's phenomenal🙌

He had too much criticism, he was the greatest creator of all time, a true Arsenal legend

We gonna miss you Legend

Let’s get this straight kaka never held down a spot at Madrid lmaooo

Mesut Özil! never fall, your negative media making fall, he is the best number 10 in German team history,

He is still shining

Thank you ozil. He made me an arsenal fan

For everyone criticizing his move from Real Madrid to Arsenal...his dad was acting as his agent at the time and his dad got in a fight (verbal fight, edit to add verbal, not physical) with the team owner and it caused an irreparable rift making things impossible and as a result, Ozil had to go. He went to Aresenal and not only brought his untouchable skill, adapted his play to the Premiere League. It's actually a pretty incredible achievement. ... Probably the one person more upset than anyone when Mesut left to go to Arsenal was Crisitano Ronaldo. If those two had continued to play together....their career stats would have been unbelievable. That was very unfortunate that as a duo they got busted up.

I would love for him to come to the MLS and get to see him up close and in person. He would be a better version of Carlos Vela in the MLS and Carlos Vela is one of the greatest and most players ever

I like Mesut Ozil very much and sure he is a nice guy to hang out with but one thing for sure you can learn from his fallout with the Arsenal board is that "Never Bite the finger that feeds you!".

Özil is a luxury player, now more than ever.

seto kaiba... BIG BROTHER!!!

Will be nice to have a interview with him about the 'frozen incident' in the near future!

MASHALLAH GREAT PLAYER

As an arsenal fan it sucks to see him leave but glad to see him leave

Everything changed the moment he signed that insane contract. Likewise Aubameyang. Clubs should offer players (who perform well) a 10% wage increase. If they reject it then sell them. Given that they are already on massive wages to begin with, if they want more than a 10% increase then that's pure greed and means they are at the club for the wrong reasons anyway. Tons of quality players round the world and the PL is the most attractive league for (most) players to join.

so lucky to say he played for my club

00:45 2016 in schalke?

Yeah I remember being shocked and jealous when arsenal scored his signature

What's out of the ordinary with the 2021 side in the thumbnail

2:47 Nice!

I miss him

I will never forget the day Arsenal signed Ozil everyone was shocked

Ozil also scored in 2010 World Cup against Ghana

Mesut özil did not fall, but because he took a picture with the Turkish Prime Minister, Germany kicked him out. So much for a country that says one should integrate !!

What's the name of the player right to Benzema at 3:35 ? I forgot it.He was great but had a knee injury that made him take like a 6 months break I guess..

It’s important to note his individual charitable commitments prior and during the pandemic, that’s partly why he didn’t take a pay cut

Didn't know Ozil started at Schalke in 2016! Wow

At 2:20 it says, "His national team's first great success from an immigrant background". Wasn't Miroslav Klose before Ozil?

The reason of the lack of information about how the pay cuts would be used came out as the team was asking the players to take a pay cut (not a deferment as every other premiere team did), not later on as you implied. The papers also said that the club said that it was the only way to not have to layoff employees, which they did anyway after the fact and then went on to spend millions on transfers in the last window. You act like it was spiteful that Ozil went and payed the salaries of people who were fired due to the pandemic but it is pretty clear that if Arsenal had truly cared about their employees and that was the real reason for the pay cuts they would have opened their books. I wonder if other players felt anger when those firings were made.

Being Turkish, he always has that tekky ability in him.

He is a legend

OZİL 💙💚

Ozil ❤ Fenerbahce ❤ Ozil

Winner -who never quit

This is like the current Aubameyang situation

8:37, they asked for the pay cut before the 55 redundancies. So arsenal saved the 12.5% on most of their players salaries and still made 55 people redundant. Ozil was right to not take the pay cut. It’s not his fault arsenal have been a mess. Hopefully both parties can turn the page now.

You guys messed up the timeliness of events in this video

Ozil and Ronaldo were amazing to watch Play. But as good as they were both were not able to made that much impact after 2019 due to the change in football style, both didn't provide defensive contributions which impacted there teams performances. While Ronaldo was only scored most of his goals from tapins and penalties, Ozil lack of defensive duty impacted heavily to the team.

he will shine again in Turkey with Fenerbahce when he gets the playing time

Damn shalke is great at finding youth squad

I forgot bout ozil until I watched a ankle breaking vid n saw him in it and was curious what happened to him

It wasn't a sudden crash though. Ozil started to disappear in the 2017-18 season, right after he signed that huge contract. Fact is: he should not have been offered a new contract in the first place (or at least not at that outrageous price anyway) and should have been sold along with Alexis, which could have funded a partial rebuild around younger players. Arsenal could've still possibly sold Ozil on in 2018 before that contract extension, but, within 12 months, that was no longer possible due to his huge performance drop-off under Emery. EDIT: Also, Ozil was not the first prominent child of immigrants to play for Germany, not even the first Turk. Mehmet Scholl's father was an immigrant and Scholl (whose birth name is Mehmet Tobias Yüksel) was a fantastic player n his day too, possibly being the best German player not to have featured for the national team at the World Cup. 8 BuLi titles make Scholl a Bayern legend.

Ozil is the best play maker I ever seen no one replace him ...it's all about politics ......ozil is the best and always

His eyes are offside His eyes are offside

His honesty and consideration towards those from his ancestral ethnic group who are currently persecuted by China, earned him his fall. People who only care about money have a strong belief that if they go against China they will lose money, and so his slowly been phased out.

Arsenal distanced themselves when ozil denounced how the Chinese treats Muslims in their country? Wow