Kieran Gibbs: ‘Mesut Ozil can take Arsenal to the next level’

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Mesut Ozil can push Arsenal to the next level, says his new team-mate Kieran Gibbs.

The left-back says the club record signing of the Germany international is a statement of intent from the club and says Ozil is the signing that “everyone’s been waiting for”.

He told the club’s official website: “I’m very excited, when a world-class player comes in and joins you’ve got to be excited.

“I’m sure he’ll settle in quickly because we’ve got Lukas [Podolski] and Per [Mertesacker] with him to get him settled so it shouldn’t take him too long. I’m really looking forward to working with him.

“He’s got a clinical side to him and technically he’s world-class. He’s going to create a lot of problems for opposition we come up against and hopefully he can continue the form that he had with Real Madrid.

“He’ll still have work to do to match Dennis Bergkamp and what he’s done for the club. But he’s a world-class player and he looks very determined to come and help the team out.

“It’s a statement to what the club want to do and what the club want to achieve. It’s something that everyone’s been waiting for so now we have a big signing to help push us to the next level.”

Gibbs has previously said the even Spurs fans should have jumped for joy when they heard that Ozil was coming to the Premier League.