Mesut Ozil stepping up to bail out Arsenal

A popular song for Arsenal supporters concerns the 2013 transfer deal that featured Tottenham selling Gareth Bale to Real Madrid and Mesut Ozil passing in the opposite direction to north London.

The problem for Tottenham, of course, is that Ozil did not sign for them, but Arsenal, and at half the money they got for Bale.

Tottenham’s inability to make the most of their €100m Bale cash is the source of much amusement to the Arsenal faithful and the fact it freed Ozil to leave is a bonus. ‘You sold Bale, we signed Mesut Ozil,’ goes the refrain.