Arsenal star Mesut Ozil has admitted that he had no idea how special the Gunners’ North London Derbies with Tottenham were until he signed for the club.
The 30-year-old arrived at the Emirates Stadium from Real Madrid in 2013 and has since turned out 208 times for the club, scoring 41 goals and laying on another 72 for team-mates.
Among these games are nine meetings with Spurs, with another set to follow when the clubs do battle at the Emirates on Sunday.
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“It was the German guys, Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podolski, who really told me about it in my first year,” Ozil told the Gunners’ official matchday programme .