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Kanu Believe it!?
Spud, please. Trophies are inbound. We've made a statement of intent here, and I think Wenger and the board are banking of UEFA FFP actually working as intended. Ozil's just the first step. Next up, Gotze, Reus, Alaba, Hummels, and all the other glorious German talent coming through. Premiership title confirmed 2014/15. Get ready.
#gethype
Out of those listed, aside from our players obviously, the only ones i'm really impressed with are Lamela/Eriksen. I was surprised Eriksen went for so cheap, but apparently he's been really poor this past year. Still, he's been the only spurs transfer i'm actually impressed with, funnily enough one of their cheapest too. Will he reach his full potential? Under AVB, doubtful. He has zero track record in developing young players. In this arena, compared to Wenger it's not even a competition.
Looking at Ozil's stats for the last 3 years, yes they are extremely impressive, but then again most of his games were against, let's face it, mediocre opposition in La Liga. I've seen a few YT videos of Ozil these past few days, and yeah it looks impressive but he's just waltzing past flat footed defenders. Try that at Stoke on a wet mid-week fixture he'd get the shit kicked out of him. Plus stats can be very misleading. Of course Ozil's a top top souper kvolitee playeur, but lots of stats in my opinion are meaningless. Pass completion for example, the most useless statistic known to man. Denilson regularly had PC of 98%. It meant fuck all, only he passed sideways to teammates 10 yds away in safe areas. Bendter had a 73/45 starts/goals ratio in his first 4 seasons. RVP had 83/43. Again extremely misleading. Assists depend on so many varying factors, mentality, opposition, your teammates, climate, crowd, wages, relationship with strike force, whether the assists/goals come in irrelevant matches and/or where the game's been put to bed already and the pressure's off, etc. Ozil won't come anywhere near to matching his La Liga stats at Arsenal, not without Ronaldo to service.
tldr: Assists and Youtube videos can be misleading.