Arsenal: When will Mesut Ozil actually start fighting for his spot?

Mesut Ozi wants to stay and fight for his spot at Arsenal, but let’s be honest, when will the fight actually start?

Without wanting to start each and every Arsenal article for the next two weeks the same exact way, let’s just skip over the part where I moan about how terrible we looked in Baku, and focus instead on one man, a man that I am so tired of talking about.

Mesut Ozil had a chance to really do something against Chelsea. And while I don’t think that a dynamite performance would have won over everyone, it sure as hell couldn’t have hurt.

If he went out there, created a handful of chances and had an actual presence in the match, then you’ve earned some good attention, and from there, we can talk about how he stepped up, how he asserted himself, how he at least acted like he wanted to be out there.

Instead, we got the same old Mesut Ozil. The same old Mesut “give me the ball, oops, nevermind, some mean-looking opposing players are near me, oh, whoops, they took the ball” Ozil.

Dude gave the ball up a team-worst seven times. He was completely anonymous until it came to giving Chelsea the ball. He was just as vital to the Blues win as Eden Hazard. And on the opposite side of things? Nothing. Not a thing.

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I’m just waiting for the Mesut Ozil fan boys:

Ozil vs Chelsea
1 chance created
1 dribble completed
Elite

For what this man is being paid, he should be the guy that rises to the occasion, he should be the guy stepping up to turn a match around. But he never does.

He said he wants to stay and fight for his place at Arsenal, right? He said that way back in January. So when are you going to start fighting? Huh? Because you’ve had about fifteen chances to start that fight and each time you tip-toe around the ring and no one notices.

Obviously that match was not just Ozil’s fault, but thinking big picture, this has been Ozil all year. It’s been a steady downward trajectory, even when Arsene Wenger was still here. Wenger just didn’t have the nerve to do anything about it.

We have to be done with him. Nothing good is ever going to come from keeping him around at a club that he continues to disappoint on a regular basis. It’s the only way he’s consistent.