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Mesut Ozil is childish, lacks confidence, leadership and mental strength
By Eurosport | Jan Molby – Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:25 GMT
What struck me about the past two nights in Barcelona's 2-0 win at Manchester City and Bayern Munich's 2-0 stroll against Arsenal is that the Premier
League can't buy the best players. They can buy most players, but not the very best.
Barcelona and Bayern Munich tend to hold onto their best players. They don't need or want to sell. And their best players don't want to leave.
Spanish clubs didn't go for some of City's best players such as David Silva, Alvaro Negredo and Jesus Navas. There was only two Spanish clubs that could
have bought them in Barcelona and Real Madrid , but they opted against signing them.
They thought to themselves: 'We've probably got better players at our club. And have probably got better players in our system.'
It is similar with Bayern Munich. Why weren't they looking to bring in a player like Mesut Ozil last summer? We saw why last night. Bayern were better than
Arsenal in everything they did, but mainly in work-rate and attitude. They're going to look at a guy like Ozil and think: 'That's not what we're looking for.'
All their players work hard, are disciplined and are exceptional footballers.
You look at Toni Kroos in comparison to Ozil. He is at a whole different level in everything he does. In how he takes care of his passing, and how he works for
the team.