{"id":159866,"date":"2019-10-13T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=159866"},"modified":"2019-10-13T12:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T11:10:48","slug":"epl-mesut-ozil-named-arsenals-best-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=159866","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Mesut Ozil named Arsenal\u2019s best player"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Arsenal star, Paul Merson, has identified playmaker, Mesut Ozil as the club\u2019s best player despite his lack of playing time under manager, Unai Emery this season.<\/p>\n

Ozil has fallen out of favour at Emirates since Emery took over from Arsene Wenger.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old only made just 24 Premier League appearances for the Gunners last season.<\/p>\n

Ozil, who joined Arsenal from Real Madrid in the summer of 2013, has not been regular for Arsenal so far this campaign.<\/p>\n

He also missed Arsenal\u2019s 1-0 victory over Newcastle United in the Premier League last weekend.<\/p>\n

But Merson believes the ex-Germany international is still the most talented player Arsenal have at their disposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cMesut Ozil should be starting Arsenal \u2019s next few games so they can take advantage of how badly Tottenham and Manchester United are struggling,\u201d Merson told Daily Star.<\/p>\n

\u201cArsenal have to make hay while the sun shines and their rivals are struggling, so they have got to put some points together in these games and go on a run.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big few weeks for them \u2013 and that\u2019s why I would play Ozil. I personally think he\u2019s their best player. In terms of ability and talent he\u2019s the best player at the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a luxury player, and the manager has obviously decided he can\u2019t carry a player like that in a team that\u2019s already one of the worst around without the ball.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut with these games coming up, Arsenal are going to have 70% of the possession. He thrives in those situations.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnai Emery should bring him in from the cold. But he won\u2019t. If he plays Ozil and they win, he has to keep playing him, and the manager doesn\u2019t want that. The manager wants him out.<\/p>\n

Merson added: \u201cI thought Ozil was Arsenal\u2019s best player against Watford and he hasn\u2019t played since. That shocked me to be honest.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he\u2019s showing it in training, he will be embarrassing a lot of the other players there, trust me. But he\u2019s not getting picked.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Arsenal star, Paul Merson, has identified playmaker, Mesut Ozil as the club\u2019s best player despite his lack of playing time under manager, Unai Emery this season. Ozil has fallen out of favour at Emirates since Emery took over from Arsene Wenger. The 30-year-old only made just 24 Premier League appearances for the Gunners last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,4427,8759],"class_list":["post-159866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-arsenal","tag-mesut-ozil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}