So what’s the story with Ozil?
This morning I put on the TV to hear Sky Sports News report that Barcelona had agreed terms with Werder Bremen for Mesut Ozil. Naturally I was disappointed but not massively as I feel it would be good to have him but we can survive without him. News confirming this was slow to come through and eventually more news sources reported that Werder had indeed confirmed that Ozil would indeed be leaving Germany.
Case closed? Nope not that simple, these things never are.
Werder would then report that they had not received and offers whilst Ozil himself stated he was unaware of any deal being struck with Barcelona.
Over on the Stretford End, friend of our site Yolkie revealed exclusively that he had it on good authority that we would not be signing the young German. Yolkie has been right in regards to a number of other United related things too so I have no reason to think he is wrong here especially considering the well reported state of our finances but then Werder Bremen’s director of sport Klaus Allofs has been reported in German paper Kreiszeitung Syke as saying:
“It is possible that there is now a bit of movement in the issue.”
So what the hell is going on here?
Frankly I’m getting bored of the whole thing and it looks like Werder have a lot of us dancing a merry dance. It’s not the first time this summer that a club or party has used another club to get a better deal. Balotelli’s agent appears to have done so with Man City (more fools them for believing!), Palermo tried it with Simon Kjaer and we even saw a shock “re-ignition of interest” in James Milner from us in the papers yesterday.
The figure that is being thrown around for Ozil’s services ranges from 8 to 12 to 15 million pounds and Werder were probably hoping for more especially after the frenzy he whipped up during the World Cup so it makes sense for Werder to continue leading on the interested parties, having them face off against each other and at the same time pushing the fee that bit higher.
There 2 weeks until the transfer window closes and I expect to see Bremen whoring Ozil and themselves out a little more in this 3 weeks. I just hope it’s over sooner rather than later and for the sake of my sanity our name is kept out of it!