Arsenal: Mesut Ozil didn’t “win” anything, because there was nothing to win

The Mesut Ozil fanboys strike again. After Arsenal announced that Unai Emery would be leaving the club, the cries of “Ozil won!” came out. Wrong. So wrong.

Among all the ugliness at the club, it was easy to lose track of some of the darker spots. One of which being Arsenal‘s ongoing issue between Mesut Ozil and Unai Emery. The now-former manager was far from Ozil’s favorite, and as he has outlasted Emery, these fanboys now declare it a “win.”

Which goes to show you where their loyalties lie. Not to the club, but to Mesut Ozil.

For starters, let me just say that Ozil didn’t win anything. He would have been sold last summer if anyone wanted him, they didn’t. Too many wages for too little result. He couldn’t be bought. That’s not a victory.

But that’s besides the point. The point is that despite Ozil clearly not being a good fit for the club anymore, Unai Emery did, in fact, try to make things work. He gave him tons of opportunities and when those opportunities didn’t pan out, the fanboys would blame Emery for not knowing how to use Ozil.

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No, that’s not true at all. It’s just that Ozil, for as talented as he is, wasn’t a good fit for the set-up here at the club.

Also, how do you “win” when you’re both on the same team? That’s the part that really irks me. Was Ozil’s objective to get Emery fired? If so, we need to have a completely different discussion about priorities and the like, because that’s something of a conflict of interest, no? Hoping that the club fails so your favorite player can see more undeserved time on the pitch is a pretty awful standpoint for a “fan” of a club, isn’t enough?

What’s going to be really interesting is what happens when Mesut Ozil continues to struggle to succeed at the Premier League level under Freddie Ljunberg, and whoever comes after that, and what the fanboys do then? Will they put a new picture on their dart board or continue to blame Emery for having “pre-ruined” their star boy?

We’re all rooting for Mesut Ozil to succeed. Unai Emery was too. That’s what fans of a team do. We don’t root for someone to be fired, we don’t root for players to fail. We root for the success as a whole. This is being a fan 101.