Crinkly Ears

Real Madrid's coach, Jose Mourinho, has cheerfully and uncontroversially (makes a change!) informed the press of the following during a trip to Turkey:



Mesut Özil es el mejor 10 del mundo. Todos le adoran y ven un poco de Figo y Zidane en él. Hará historia en el Real Madrid...

Mesut Özil is world's best number 10. Everyone loves him and sees a little of Figo and Zidane in him. He'll make history at Real Madrid...

For the record: Mesut played 52 games, made 29 assists and scored 7 goals. Last year: 53 games, 26 assists, 11 goals.

This seems a good opportunity to point out that our beloved andriy_7 once created a lovely spam of pictures of Mesut and Mourinho, complete with press quotations from the pair of them over the past two seasons, which can be FOUND HERE.

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The Mesuty Miscellany: CR7 Jokes Around,
Rot-Weiss-Essen Comes Into Some Money & Training Pics!

CR7 Jokes Around...

...With Mesut a great deal, with Sami only a little!


Cristiano Ronaldo has been interviewed and has noted the following:

We joke about the Euros and Portugal's match with Germany all the time. I especially do so with Mesut Ozil because he is funnier than Sami, who is more of a serious guy. We (CR7 and Mesut) just say things like, 'Watch out for your legs' or 'I’ll play down your side’ [to the Spaniards]…

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Özil: "Das ist der bisher größte Titel" ("It's the biggest title so far")
Translated by me, jenny_jenkins
LINK TO THE GERMAN
May 3, 2012

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(Originally posted in the old o_ozil community on March 23, 2011)

I've had several requests to re-post this press-conference translation after Mesut pointedly declined to discuss life in Madrid in his last press-conference. This post contains the translation of his press-conference given on March 23 (Oliver Bierhoff also attended). The Youtube video of Mesut's portion of the press conference has been taken down.

It was an unusually charming press-conference - with the press-pack behaving like fan-boys ("How much time do you spend with Sami Khedira!")

Following the press conference are the press reviews - which were many but not varied! The press was charmed beyond words by Mesut's shyness and the critical reaction was amusing!

Love to ext_1127286 for reminding me to post it!




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I would like to begin this post with a directive to our darling members. READ THE POST BEFORE THIS ONE FIRST. It's from sashatwen and it is bloody brilliant.

Please and Thank you.

I would also like to note that a large number of the photographs you are about to see are quite original and are not (yet) to be seen elsewhere. This is because of andriy_7's ingenuity and resourcefulness. He has Russian sources for photographs. I'd tell you how he got them, but then we'd have to kill you ;)

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The two important things about this game from our point of view happened before the boys even arrived on the pitch to meet fourth-place Levante - the only team, aside from Barca, to get a win over Madrid this season.

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