Ozil needs a kicking at Arsenal to toughen him up-Adams

Arsenal legend Tony Adams has suggested that Mesut Ozil needs to be “toughened up” by taking a kicking from team-mates in training. The former Arsenal captain told The Sun: “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. “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 with 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 around 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!’ “But it’s all become a little bit too nice there. You can’t criticise or say bad things. "When I was at the club, if people weren’t pulling their weight, I’d tell them. If you haven’t got leaders, you get anarchy. People just do what they want to do. “The game has changed and it’s not about kicking people now but it is still about aggression. “It’s about tracking runners, getting in behind teams, getting down the throats of opponents and really testing their touch.”

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