Arsenal return to action next weekend in the Premier League when they take on Fulham away from home in the season opener. And according to The Sun, Mesut Ozil could play a part in this.
The report claims: “MESUT OZIL has been thrown an unlikely Arsenal lifeline after playing his first game in six months for the club.
“The German playmaker was a surprise starter in Saturday’s final pre-season friendly against Aston Villa.
“And now he is in with a chance of being involved in this week’s opening Premier League game at Fulham as Mikel Arteta considers all his options.
“Ozil, 31, did not feature in any of Arsenal’s 13 games of the season after football came out of lockdown and didn’t even make the subs’ bench for the final ten.
“But Arteta is resigned to the out of favour German seeing out the final year of his Emirates contract.”
Mesut Ozil had been frozen out of the Arsenal squad and he did not play a single minute as the 2019/20 season resumed after the lockdown.
And while the Gunners had originally planned to offload him this summer but clearly that plan has not worked out and now the German is likely to see out his contract at the club.
Dani Ceballos has returned on yet another loan deal so we do not expect Mesut Ozil to be named in the starting XI vs Fulham at Craven Cottage but there’s a massive chance that he will be named in the matchday squad.
Last season, the 31-year-old featured in only 18 Premier League matches for the Gunners and we could very well see the repeat of the same this time around.
