Arsenal
have completed the £42.4m signing of Real Madrid and Germany midfielder Mesut
Ozil to break their club record by £27.4m.
Ozil,
24, has signed a five-year deal.
“I am
thrilled to be joining a club of the stature of Arsenal and am looking forward
to playing in the Premier League,” he said.
I
don’t believe it Wenger actually did it he spent and spent big and brought in a
proper big name star and not some unknown teenager for a fiver.
With
this signing Arsenal are sending out a proper statement of intent that they
want to compete for the top top names, spend big, and build a team that might
actually win something, and as an Arsenal fan I’m actually went to bed after
the window shut excited for the first time in a very long time.
While
Ozil alone won’t make us title or champions league contenders, what it will do
is send a message to any other transfer targets in future that we are serious
about challenging the like of United, City and Chelsea, and that we can be a
force again.
In the
last few years we’ve been in decline selling Fabregas, Van Persie etc. but in
signing Ozil we’ve halted the slide and are now making our way back up, and in
the next few windows if we add another top name of the same calibre as Ozil
each time then we can become regular contenders again rather than scrapping and
scraping for 4th.
As
pleased as I am that we signed Ozil, I think he’ll be a perfect fit for us, I
was disappointed that we didn’t do a little more to sign a striker as we
haven’t got too many options in that department, and I still can’t believe we
let Higuain slip away.
I’m also
surprised we didn’t sign another defender but you can’t have everything, and so
much for all these financial rules and regulations as all 20 Premier League
teams bought in at least one player and spent a record £630m in the process.
You
can clearly see they’ve had an effect and made clubs act much more sensibly
with their finances and scale back their spending . . . what a joke.
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