Arsenal may offer to sell Mesut Ozil for a cut-price £25million next month, according to the Daily Mail.
The newspaper claim the Gunners playmaker could be offloaded in the January window as the club look to prune costs and get his £350,000-a-week wage from their books.
The Mail report Inter Milan are among the clubs keeping tabs on Ozil and his situation at Arsenal under new manager Unai Emery.
Good move for Arsenal?
Yes. Ozil is a fine talent capable of magic moments, but he is not and never will be a great Premier League player. He is the king of the assists, and his numbers in an Arsenal jersey are impressive, 41 goals scored and 73 directly created from 209 appearances. Yet, there is the sense that a player of his technical gifts could and should have produced so much more. Ozil is a flat-track bully who cleans up against the lesser lights, but goes missing in virtually every marquee fixture. Quite why Arsenal made him their best-ever paid player in January is something of a mystery. That was a poor piece of business, and one he has conspicuously failed to justify.
This Is Futbol rating 8/10
Likely to happen?
Finding a club willing to pay £25million for Ozil should not be too taxing, even though he turned 30 in October and has been demoted down the pecking order by Emery. The problem is a staggering salary, which only a few clubs in the world could afford. Given the sums involved, an exit next summer may be more likely.
This Is Futbol rating 3/10