{"id":1919,"date":"2013-09-02T22:40:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T21:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2013-09-02T23:07:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T22:07:39","slug":"mesut-ozil-has-joines-arsenal-on-a-5-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/?p=1919","title":{"rendered":"Mesut \u00d6zil has joined Arsenal on a 5 year deal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes it&#8217;s a done deal fellow Gooners,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/news-archive\/german-international-ozil-joins-arsenal\" target=\"_blank\">Mesut \u00d6zil has joined Arsenal on a 5 year deal!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is understood the deal cost around 42.4 million pounds. Arsene Wenger was delighted to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are extremely pleased to have signed Mesut Ozil. He is a great player, with proven quality at both club and international level. We have watched and admired him for some time as he has all the attributes I look for in an Arsenal player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have said throughout the summer that we have been working hard to bring in top quality players to this football club. This has involved many many people across the Club and I have always had the full support of the Club in making decisions on the football side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMesut is a top quality footballer who will be a fantastic addition to our talented squad. We are all looking forward to him joining up with us after his international matches with Germany and working with us as an Arsenal player.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mesut \u00d6zil Welcome to The Arsenal Football Club! This is good start and hopefully it&#8217;s not the end of our buying spree!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes it&#8217;s a done deal fellow Gooners,\u00a0Mesut \u00d6zil has joined Arsenal on a 5 year deal! It is understood the deal cost around 42.4 million pounds. Arsene Wenger was delighted to say: \u201cWe are extremely pleased to have signed Mesut Ozil. He is a great player, with proven quality at both club and international level. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arsenal-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}