Mesut Özil

Maybe get Mac Allister in there in the 10.

He seems like he c- he can, he's not like Ozil but he can play the passes a bit more clear, clearer than Wirtz at the moment.

And just so long as Trey plays then there's a little bit more security behind him.

It, not forever, but I feel like Wirtz might need a bit of a kick up the bum to realize like you can't just run around putting in mileage being a defensive attacking midfielder and just gonna start every game.

Right.

But, uh, Özil once got seven in a row.

So let's see how Cardines gets on.

A big win for Southampton.

I know it was against lesser opposition, but in the FA Cup, the responsibility that he was taking, coming deeper, playing it through the lines, he has that quality.

And I think also with the Özil comparison, Mesut Özil was very underrated without the ball.

It didn't look it, but his intelligence in the press was very good.

Um, but it's that, that, that languid manner.

So what I mean by that is like Bruno's passes, he's able to sort of ping them into spaces that are useful for getting into that final third.

And sometimes they're very useful in transition, right? But what he doesn't seem to do is create that vertical slide roll pass, like a De Bruyne, like an Ozil, like sometimes, you know, um, Like even Raheem Sterling would be the one to get on the end of those when they were creating them.

That pass often seems to be missing from the group.

And United, it doesn't seem like they have anybody.

pretty much pretty much so does Adegule become a guaranteed starter where does he play is he supposed to bench Diomande who's 140 million euros is he a midfielder playing behind Jude what happens what I don't get it but that's a conversation everyone's talking about I mean,

players that have been compared to Goulet or Goulet has been compared to or they're hoping he kind of emulates Ozil, Isco.

Let's use Isco, for example.

Not from a sense or standpoint of how they play, but their roles in the team.

I think he knows it, to be honest with you.

Look, I don't think he's been given... starts to fully show up but i don't think he's deserved them like it's just it's one of those things where not played a lot but also in the moments that you've been given you haven't been dominant enough to deserve more and it's it's not without talent like there's still moments in games where i think oh that's a brilliant move come on carry the urgency like let's see it There's a lot to say about him and Ozil's application to the game and how they view the game in terms of the way that they approach it and letting the game come to them.

And I think a lot of people say you have enough talent to take the game to them, but he lets the game come to him far too often.

Yeah.

Not pick on, pick on is the wrong word, but to almost go to war with or battle with quite a well-known senior figure a- and show your authority that way.

I mean, I mean, the, the Spurs CEO is Vinai Venkatesham, who used to be at Arsenal and was there when Mikel Arteta did the same thing with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Mesut Ozil, and that helped Arteta establish himself as the man with all the power at Arsenal.

And it really feels like this summer, obviously De Zerbi came in late last year, but this summer with the transfer window getting the players that he wants, a- and now Richarlison just completely ostracizing him because clearly he individually isn't happy with Richarlison as an individual.

It shows again the kind of influence and power that De Zerbi now wields quite quickly at Spurs.