Ex-Real Madrid midfielder, Sami Khedira has come out to say that Mesut Ozil was once the most special player at Real Madrid, not Cristiano Ronaldo. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, even Ronaldo, Benzema and Sergio Ramos knew Ozil was an absolute genius at the club, and they all complained to Florentino Perez before he sold the German midfielder.
Khedira added that he has never seen a player with the class and quality that Mesut showed in Spain.
His words, “Everyone understands Cristiano. To win games, Cristiano was the man, because he never failed. He was always there. We needed a goal, so we passed the ball to Cristiano. But the most special player for me was Mesut Ozil. And I explain it with his departure.
The day Mesut left, we were all saying to Florentino: ‘But why are you selling him?’ But we all said it, right? Benzema, Cristiano, Ramos… Ozil was an absolute genius, he was a real magician. I played behind him and you gave him a bad pass and he controlled the ball with ease… I have never seen a player with that class and that quality, really.
I don’t know, because there were Cristiano and Messi and also Xavi and Iniesta, who for me should have won a Ballon d’Or. But yes, Ozil had that potential. And although he had a great career, it would have been different at Madrid.
And he told me, that it was a serious mistake to leave Madrid, because he had everything here. The Bernabeu loved him, he played like an angel… Really, Mesut played like Zidane. My idol was Zizou and if you put both of them on YouTube and watch them… Mesut was like Zizou.”
WOW.
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid. The club competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spanish football.
Real Madrid has maintained the white shirt for its home kit throughout the history of the club. There was, however, one season that the shirt and shorts were not both white. It was an initiative undertaken by Juan Padrós in honor of an English team Corinthian F.C., which he had met on one of his trips, one of the most famous teams at the time known for its elegance and sportsmanship.
It was under Florentino Pérez’s first presidency (2000–2006) that Real Madrid started its ambition of becoming the world’s richest professional football club. The club ceded part of its training grounds to the city of Madrid in 2001, and sold the rest to four corporations: Repsol YPF, Mutua Automovilística de Madrid, Sacyr Vallehermoso and OHL.
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