Can't understand SAF when he says that there's no value in the market. Football like any other business requires that you speculate to accumulate; and if SAF counts the cost of not winning the Premiership and Champions League, than further investment in a choice player like Ozil is and must be a given.

Brilliant article with the facts and stat's to proove why we need to sign Oezil.
I personally think more so for the Champions league campaign.

www.twitter.com/amzEr_10

I think you will find he was one of the Stars of the under 21 championships in Sweden last year.Scoring a magnificent goal against England.
"Remember for every player we sign, a young player is blocked off" he is 21!
Do you not want to improve?
He is already World class, its not a development programme with him.
Its effectively money in the bank.
If we have any money that is?

i am watching live per season traing. and there is no sign of fergie. he is always at per seaon traing at old trafford open day. and there now going to interview micke phealan. my piont is could he be gone to london to meeet bermen and mesut ozil

Just managed to read your comments 'Ozil Fan'. Lets hope you are right I have everything crossed.

let us all pray he'll come next season or maybe at the january transfer window..~believe~

lets all pray.

Fergie has gone senile, we're doomed to failure this season..

United are fucked this season lol

lol what? all im saying is united r fucked if they dont make at least one signing this summer.. like city have made signings and were gonna win the leaugue within 2 years so HA!

Ohhh Right, Lets see how Mancini gels your 34 odd players into a 25 man squad!
Didnt you do well in the preseason tour.
I was particularly impressed with your performance against Inter Milan.
A team full of cohesion and togetherness.
One of the most unhappy group of players you could ever witness.
We dont need to make a heap of signings.
If you are aware of our youth system and pedigree.
Oezil would just be the necessary key to progress in the Champions league with ease.
United and Chelsea will still fight it out for the Premiership.
Lets wait for the Firesale of players at Wastelands.It will happen.

Kay nice arguemente.. NOT! Nice blog.. NOT! AHA

Supporters want you to buy players. They like to see a big signing every year. Sometimes the players like to see a big signing.

But we have to be sensible about it. We look at our own squad and ask what do we need? I look at the players everyone says are available and they don't excite me.

dude fergie told he is not singing any one........................................................So ozil.....just drean high

Yeah apparently he's attending the game.. Its all over twitter.. Lets hope!

"I look at the players everyone says are available and they don't excite me." This quote was made by SAF.A website today suggested that SAF may have travelled 2 London to watch Ozil,but hang on the last time he himself went to watch someone it was Angel Di Maria who landed up with Real Madrid.I JUST HOPE it does not happen this time !!!

Hey maybe the supposed disinterest of Sir Alex is done on purpose, so as not to inflate the fees if united show interest. United seems to do things rather quietly these days. Look at how Diouf, Smalling and Hernandez was signed, all surprises. And so were the many new reserve players as Obertan, Pogba, those 2 italian defenders Massacci and what's his name, or even Ole's group of King, Eikrem, Hussain, all came out of the blue. Meaning, just wait n see. Something will happen before the transfer deadline, I am sure. New signings. Question now is - who?

With SAF at the fulham game... maybe just maybe a transfer will take place soon? Fingers crossed. Please keep us updated!

Well...
Fulham 5:1 Werder Bremen
with Ozil??
what says you guys?
maybe SAF is really right to say there's no value in the market.

CJ, you've never been an Özil fan anyway.

Fergie has been following Özil's career for since he was a teenager. He knows all about Özil's performances for Schalke, Werder Bremen, the European Championship winning Germany Under-21 side and the Germany team who finished 3rd at the World Cup. You think he's gonna dismiss all of that just because Özil's team got dicked in his pre-season friendly since the World Cup? No chance.

Fergie didn't go to London just to scouting Özil, he went there to tie up the deal. You can bet David Gill is having dinner with his Werder Bremen counterparts right now, while Fergie and Özil take in a West End show.

Anybody got any info about fergies whereabouts in the hours after the game? Id imagine they would try and get Ozil's medical and all sorted out while he's on English soil, evil if the deal was not finalised first

I was just wondering about what Fergie reportedly said yesterday about there's no value in adding to our squad. Are those reports official because they usually put things like this on the United site, yet it's not on there.

Even though it is being said that Fergie went to London to watch Fulham take on WB but what proof is there that he was at the match.He might have been somewhere else????

Karthik, there is photographic proof of Sir Alex being at the Fulham match, search Getty Images. It is very unusual that he would skip United's public training session at Old Trafford today in order to watch a Fulham friendly.

I just hope it isn't a publicity stunt to give the impression we have money to spend... nah, that's TOO cynical - OR IS IT???

@Mike - I agree. Very confusing. That's what made me suspicious of a PR stunt. As United Latest said, he knows full well people will put 2 + 2 together and conclude that we must be signing Özil.

Yeh you're right Fredster. Meanwhile, what do people think of this the other day: www.twitter.com/officialoezil.

I'm lead to believe that this is his actual twitter account, and he said "The road to success is to BELIEVE". Links with Man Utd perhaps? After all, Believe is on the inside of our new shirt.

United latested

And then sell him for a profit Alejandro! I like your thinking!

It would be a different story if we weren't playing in London this weekend. It's not like Fergie travelled down especially for this game so we can't read too much into it. There are many reasons to make the trip worthwhile: Ozil is available, Sparky is a mate, we play Fulham in 2 weeks, he had to travel down anyway.... Maybe he promised his wife a day/night out before the season starts? :)

LOL @ that "Mesut Ozil" the gentleman he met in London sounds more like Sir Elton than Sir Alex!

I think some people on this blog have gone stir crazy waiting for the latest Ozil news, or maybe the Ozil-fever is making them nuts. Piss funny either way. :-D

This is ridiculous. I can't believe that this is even being discussed. If Oezil is available, then we simply need to stop dicking around and sign the kid. If the prices in the 12 to 15 million range are true, then it would be completely foolish to ignore him. Keep in mind we spent 16 million on Tosic, and that essentially bought us 8 first team minutes and three reserve goals. If he was worth the gamble at that price, why not get the player that started for one of the best sides in this years world cup. He was astonishing in the tourney, and I for one believe that above all else, Fergie has an eye for talent. He surprised us with Chicarito, and he'll surprise us again with Oezil. Fergie said he wasn't signing anybody? When hasn't he said that? We weren't signing anybody and pulled off a premier league high transfer of our favorite Bulgarian. Fergie isn't dumb. We're getting this kid. I for one, can't wait. He's the kind of player that can take over the Paul Scholes/Ronaldo/Giggs role of a goal scoring creative midfielder. Fletch can focus more on cleaning up in the midfield and the pace of Oezil and Rooney/Hernandez could be deadly this season. Not to mention that his ball holding abilities could free some of the burden of that thankless task from berbatov, so that he can focus on getting into better positions to score. This is done on Monday, or else I'm going to be very, very sad.

after watching todays ganme we badly need a creative midfielder. how many times did we give the ball away if it wasnt for scholes or rooney we would of lost the ganme for sure. please fergie buy mesut ozil aslo great goal buy berbatov keep it up

There is a secret bid for Ozil made by Ferguson which is being reviewed by Werder Bremen. Ferguson would love to have ozil for the right price but does not want to make him a top target hence he has been tight-lipped.