Arsenal: Mario Gotze solves a whole lot of nothing

It’s no surprise that Arsenal are linked to another Borussia Dortmund man, but Mario Gotze is so far from any kind of solution.

Okay, we get it. Arsenal’s chief scout used to work for Borussia Dortmund. That doesn’t mean that we should change our home kits yellow and black and sign the entire staff at Dortmund, right on down to their beer vendors.

Sven Mislintat has used his connections well. Landing us Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan was a fantastic move, and a tremendous use of resources. But it should have stopped there.

Going back for Sokratis was one step too far for me. It was unnecessary and it continued to belabor this Dortmund connection. But technically, Sokratis would only be the second player Mislintat pulled away from his former club.

Mario Gotze would make it three, and that’s just downright shameful. That isn’t why MIslintat is here. He’s here to bring Arsenal the same kind of players that he brought Dortmund. Not the actual players he brought them.

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But that isn’t even the worst part about this wayward rumor. The worst part is that Mario Gotze serves to practical purpose if he were to join the Gunners.

Another No. 10? It’s like a really bad comedy skit. Arsenal have so many No. 10’s that it’s more of a joke than their shoddy defense. At some point, they have to have midfielders that do more than make fancy passes and attack the opposing goal.

Because that’s what Gotze does too. And not much more than that, actually.

I admire Gotze. He took a path that not many footballers take. He left his boyhood club for their hated rivals, then had the gumption to return to the club that built him and reestablish himself with them.

That takes a lot of guts, to go from snake to savior, even if the transformation was never really complete, as Gotze was never able to reach the heights he initially did with Dortmund. Be it in part to the myopathy he was diagnosed with two years ago or not, who knows.

All this equates to a midfielder with quite the story, but without any part to play in the Gunners new era.

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Unless there is some sort of sneaky sale in the horizon, which there really doesn’t need to be, then this link belongs where a surprising few this summer already are – in the waste bin.

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