Former Arsenal star, Tony Adams has advised the club’s current players to kick and rough handle midfielder, Mesut Ozil, during trainings to help bring the best out of him.
Adams said the German needed to be roughened up if he is to turn his Arsenal form around.
Ozil, who is Arsenal’s highest paid player, has endured a slow start to the season, with the Gunners back-to-back defeats to Manchester City and then local rivals, Chelsea.
Adams, who captained Arsenal during a brilliant era of success under Arsene Wenger, believes the current crop of players are too soft
Metro UK quoted Adams as saying, “If you have solidity and strength in your team, then Ozil is a great asset.
“He’s a World Cup winner and a class act,’ said Adams. ‘He’s like Bergkamp, who cruised through his first couple of years at the Arsenal
“We had to get him a little bit toughened up but Ozil hasn’t got the people around him to push him and get him going.
“There’s only so much a coach can do. It starts in training. We used to kick Dennis.
“Steve Bouldy would kick him up in the air again and again. ‘After a while of this he turned round and stamped on Bouldy and said ‘I’ve had enough of you effing kicking me, you’re going to get a little bit back here’. We all said ‘aye, aye, he’s a got a bit about him — Hallelujah’”
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