I didn’t have Ancelotti’s trust – Ozil
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Ozil quit Real Madrid to join Arsenal because he realised he no longer
had the confidence of Real coach Carlo Ancelotti, the Germany playmaker
said.
The Premier League club smashed their
transfer record to sign Ozil for £42.5m on Monday, days after he said he
would stay with the nine-times European champions for a fourth season.
Ozil sulked after Ancelotti substituted
him in last month’s La Liga match at Granada and the Italian then left
him on the bench for Sunday’s 3-1 victory at home to Athletic Bilbao.
“I was certain…that I would stay at Real
Madrid,” Ozil said in an interview published on the German soccer
federation’s website on Tuesday.
“Then I realised that I didn’t have the
confidence of the coach and the officials after all,” added the
24-year-old of Turkish origin.
Ozil’s departure, which followed Real’s
purchase of winger Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur for a world-record
fee of €100m, prompted head-scratching in Spain as he was one of Real’s
most creative squad members.
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