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The Premier League club smashed their transfer record to sign Ozil for 42.5
million pounds on Monday, days after he said he would stay with the nine-times
European champions for a fourth season.

Ozil sulked after Ancelotti substituted him in last month's La Liga match at
Granada and the Italian then left him on the bench for Sunday's 3-1 victory
at home to Athletic Bilbao.

" I was certain...that I would stay at Real Madrid," Ozil said in an interview
published on the German federation's website on Tuesday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spe2BvvgtEA

" Then I realised that I didn't have the confidence of the coach and the
officials after all," added the 24-year-old of Turkish origin.

" I am a player who needs that confidence and I saw that I would have that
at Arsenal and that is why I am going there."

Ozil's departure, which followed Real's purchase of winger Gareth Bale from
Tottenham Hotspur for a world-record fee of 100 million euros (￡85.3m),
prompted head-scratching in Spain as he was one of Real's most creative squad
members.

He made 31 assists in his last two seasons, the most of any player in La Liga
, and had developed a lethal partnership with Real's Portugal forward Cristiano
Ronaldo.

Ozil said he was happy to be joining up with Germany team mates Lukas Podolski
and Per Mertesacker at Arsenal and the fact that the London club's manager
Arsene Wenger spoke German would help him to settle in.

"Wenger gives me the confidence that I can develop further and I want to be
in top form for the World Cup next year," he said.

"I spoke to him for a long time on the telephone and he told me his
expectations and he trusts me, which I need as a player.

"I am a player who always wants to play a whole match, the full 90 minutes.

"I am looking forward to the new challenge. I have already heard that they
(Arsenal) have fantastic fans, the city is great and the team is of a very
high quality."

Real fans who gathered at the Bernabeu for Bale's presentation on Monday
chanted for Ozil to stay and the player had warm words for the supporters of
his former club.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZWIBYMm2ZA

"It makes you sad of course when you hear things like that but I wish my
friends there all the best, that they stay healthy and are successful."


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http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/03/mesut-ozil-arsenal

by Raphael Honigstein


As you would expect, Mesut Ozil's ￡42.5m move to Arsenal has reverberated
through his home country – all the way down to the nether regions of
Regionalliga West, the fourth division. Rot-Weiss Essen, a traditional
powerhouse who have fallen on hard times, were jubilant when they heard the
news on Monday; they are expecting a handsome windfall of €800,000 (￡
675,000) as compensation for developing him over a decade ago. Schalke, where
the son of Turkish immigrants played from 2005-08, are due a similar figure.

The real benefit to German football of this record transfer – the
24-year-old is now its most expensive footballer – will go far beyond
financial considerations, however. Ozil's "escape from circus Real Madrid" (S
üddeutsche Zeitung) has been widely seen as a smart decision, both for him
and, by extension, the national team. Germany's manager, Joachim Löw,
certainly will not have to fret about his sensitive playmaker being frozen
out at the Bernabéu in a World Cup season any more.

Ozil will instead find a team playing his kind of football, two German
team-mates to keep him company and a manager who can explain his ideas in
German. Most importantly, Ozil will go from feeling like the fifth wheel at
Carlo Ancelotti's Madrid to being the star attraction in north London, and Ars
ène Wenger's personal favourite. The Frenchman tried to sign him first seven
years ago, before he moved to Werder Bremen.

"I'm a player who needs the confidence [of the manager]," Ozil explained to
dfb.tv, the official channel of the national team, on Tuesday. "At the
weekend, I was certain that I would stay at Real Madrid, but afterwards I
realised that I did not have the faith from the coach or the bosses. I am
really looking forward to [joining Arsenal] because I have the faith of the
coach. I had spoken to him at length on the telephone, he explained his plans
and that he has faith in me – that is what I need as a player."

Germany's sporting director, Oliver Bierhoff, joked about a "hectic" start to
the international week. The former striker had facilitated the deal just as
he had done two years ago, when Per Mertesacker was signed on deadline day by
the Gunners. You could just sense the slightest sense of exasperation in the
45-year-old's voice – why do they always leave it so late? – but it was in
his own interest to see it get done. Ensuring Ozil got out of the Madrid
pressure cooker had become a thing of national importance. He had no longer
been feeling "the trust inside the club", Bierhoff explained: "Ancelotti had
perhaps different ideas."

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's Spanish correspondent Paul Ingendaay took a
more negative line on Ozil's departure to the Emirates. The outrageously
gifted playmaker did not impose himself in any of Madrid's big matches in the
past three seasons, he recalled, and wryly noted that his at times
breathtakingly elegant performances were "the stuff of dreams, but not of
trophies".

The move to Arsenal – "a club that's always involved at the top but never
tends to win anything" – amounted to him failing in the Spanish capital and
was not simply a consequence of new arrivals Gareth Bale and Isco stealing
his limelight. "The air at Real had been thin for him before," Ingendaay
insisted.

There is some truth to that. Serious seeds of doubt about his future at
Madrid were first sown in a meeting with club management in mid-May.

Mustapha Ozil, the player's father and agent, expected the president,
Florentino Pérez, to offer a contract extension beyond 2016 and improved
wages that reflected his popularity with the supporters, but the club coolly
professed contentment with the existing status quo. Feelers were put out to a
number of Premier League sides over the course of the summer.

A combination of Ozil's wage demands – he was already on €5m a year after
tax at Madrid, roughly the equivalent of ￡150,000 per week before tax in the
UK – as well as Madrid's preoccupation with incoming players did not lead to
any concrete negotiations before the beginning of the weekend, however. Then
Arsenal called.

As late as last Wednesday, when Ozil was professing his love for Real to
German journalists at a Madrid event organised by his sponsors Adidas, he
firmly expected to stay at the club. Madrid soon made their plans – or lack
of them – for him clear, though. "Real Madrid mobbed him towards Arsenal,"
was Bild's take on the affair.

"I wasn't surprised, I had known about it for two or three days," confirmed
his former Los Blancos team-mate Sami Khedira, possibly the only German who
has seemed upset about Ozil's London move. "I regret the decision, it could
weaken [Madrid], from a sporting point of view," said the 26-year-old in
Munich.

Bierhoff carefully suggested that Germany's No10 will "have to adapt to new
conditions" in England after leaving a league that seemed more tailored to
his lightness of touch. "In Spain, the style suited him, naturally," Bierhoff
admitted, "but he will mature [in England]."

A similar hope for Germany's most beautiful but also frail flower was
expressed in Süddeutsche. "Wenger is someone who understands artists," mused
the broadsheet, "[at Arsenal] somebody like him could find ideal conditions
to blossom."




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我個人認為我想要贏得獎盃。但是我同時也相信，在大球會，你也需要擁有一種比賽風格
。通常情況下兩者是一致的，儘管並不總是這樣。但是我仍然相信，如果沒有一種持續的
比賽風格，在長期你不可能作為一個在世界範圍內享有盛譽俱樂部倖存下來。爭取冠軍的
最好方式，就是擁有一種自己的比賽風格，擁有一種代代相傳的球隊文化，從小球員到成
年球員，那就是我們試圖創造的東西。目標和目的就是為了贏得獎盃。－Arsene Wenger

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