Tottenham youngster Dele Alli won the coveted PFA Young Player of the year award last night and Leicester City’s star playmaker Riyad Mahrez won the PFA player of the year award.
The Team of the Year comprised of four players each from the Spurs and the Foxes. The biggest exclusion was that of German Player of the Year and Arsenal star Mesut Ozil and it will be fair to say that Spurs attacker Alli took his place in the TOTY.
With 3 games to go in the Premier League, the 27-year-old former Real Madrid star has scored 6 goals and provided no fewer than 18 assists. He needs 3 assists in 3 games to set a new PL record.
However, since the turn of the year, Ozil has been highly inconsistent and that is the main reason why he is not in the Team of the Year. The World Cup winner has only provided 2 assists in 13 games in 2016.
The Gooners will probably blame the fact that they do not have a world class striker because Ozil has created loads of chances. Anyway, Arsenal fans were never going to like his exclusion and had to react. Here are a few tweets.
We know that Ozil should be in that #TOTY
— Charles (@Charles_chain) April 21, 2016
@Gayle909Gayle @PFA @premierleague @MesutOzil1088 pic.twitter.com/KWLs2z3pT8
— Amar B (@AmarildoB98) April 24, 2016
LOL Alli ahead of Ozil in #TOTY? If he was that good he would of been nominated for POTY, I’d even take Ozil over Payet tbqh.
— Ajinkya Pokharkar (@ajinkya4793) April 21, 2016
If arsenal had a top striker this whole ozil debate wouldn’t even be a thing #TOTY
— 迪伦 (@dylan_1597) April 21, 2016
The type of people that want Wenger out are those that won’t put Ozil in #TOTY.. They don’t understand football.. They only make empty shout
— Dare (@Daresofekun) April 21, 2016
It was all Wenger’s fault….
Ozil is bang average! What does he do? A few assists? Whoo hoo! 42mill he’s garbage, if he was that good he’d drag arseanal up the table! Give me eriksen for 10 mill anyday, does pretty much the same, Ozil shouldn’t have even been considered lol! I’d put coutinoho ahead of him, Adrian Durham from talk sport spot on!!