Mesut Ozil Is In His Comfort Zone – Arsene Wenger

Arsene Wenger has come out to suggest that Mesut Ozil could have lost motivation after a new contract.

Ozil signed a three-and-a-half-year-deal in February 2018 with his new contract reportedly earning him £350,000 a week and placing him among of the world’s best paid players and since then he hasn’t done anything to deserve that high pay.

His words, “I feel that the length of the contract has nothing to do normally with the selection of the team. But sometimes there are special cases,”

“Most of the time now we think when we sign a player for five years we have a good player for five years. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that they practice, they play their best. Because they might be in their comfort zone.

“He has a contract but the problem is that if you want to buy a player like him you have to spend £100million. And to maintain the value of the player, beyond the Ozil case, it is more about the way football is structured.

“To buy players of top, top quality you need £100m. So the decision you have to make is whether you re-sign the player, who costs us nothing, or do we have the money to buy a new player?”