Sky Sports News have reported that Arsenal are “in advanced talks” with Real Madrid to sign German international Mesut Özil.
According to Guillem Balague, Real Madrid and Arsenal have reached a deal for Özil for 45 million euros, pending an agreement with the player who apparently, it desperate to leave the club.
I have no idea how much he is on but I would be certain that for any deal to happen we’d have to beat – or at least match – his current wage. I would assume he is on a big wage at Madrid (since they don’t seem to have any financial culpability) so it will interesting to see how this develops.
The signs are positive but lets not forget that we’ve been here before. We were well in for Gonzalo Higuain and look what happened there. And of course, there’s nothing stopping another club coming in for him, a la Higuain.
The deal does “make sense” in terms of Bale signing for £85.3 million and the theory that Özil’s chances may be restricted with the Welshman’s arrival. Also, there’s an idea that Madrid will want to get back some of the money they’ve spent on Bale.
Daniel Levy has delayed the Bale deal for weeks and weeks, as it was thought Arsenal were going to pick up a couple of Real Madrid players once that deal was completed – and Levy didn’t want Arsenal to strengthen as we are perceived to be their biggest challengers for 4th position in the league.
Another positive is that Lukas Podolski and Per Mertesacker could influence the German’s decision by saying how much they love it at The Emirates. There are reports the Manchester United might hijack the deal with Kagawa apparently going to PSG. So we’ll have to wait and see.
The next 24 hours are going to be absolutely mental for Arsenal rumours on new signings – even more so than the last 3 months – so I would say brace yourself and wait for Arsenal to confirm any new signings before getting too excited!
Lets hope we now have some luck with this one ! The Real President has a reputation of playing one team off against another, as was the case with Higuain.
Arsenal have now to be more ruthless on transfers. Ozil would be a great fit and would suit our style of play. I am sure we can improve his wages, the offer for Higuain was double his current deal, Napoli matched this offer, but Arsenal changed there priority to Suarez when Real increased the fee by £10 million pounds. Fingers crossed !!!
Interesting.. €45m for ozil, vilviano apparently on loan, £9m for toby anderweireld, £17m for muriel(he scored today for udinese) as backup striker to giroud since it seems we cant get an A-list striker, then finally £13m for montero(the ecuador winger) if we cant get angel di maria for £25.6m.. So all together we spend £79m(that’s if its montero).. Or £85.6m(that’s if it di maria) Job done, we would be absolute title contenders. I just hope i get my wish
Ozil leavin madrid is a great mistake.
Arsenal most b d hapies team 2 hv ozil at dis moment.
Roony van persy welbeck cuichinio or wetever his name is
nani cleverly
Way Man U want ozil ?!!!!