Will Mesut Ozil Join Manchester United?

Jose Mourinho has refused to rule out a move for Arsenal contract rebel Mesut Ozil.

Mourinho, who worked with Ozil for three years at Real Madrid, has previously hailed him as “the best No. 10 in the world.” The Portuguese coach has struggled to find a player to fill the role at Old Trafford.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan, a £30 million signing from Borussia Dortmund 18 months ago, is expected to be left out of the squad again when Manchester United face Ozil’s Arsenal at the Emirates on Saturday evening.

Reports have it that Ozil has not made a decision about his future, but that he remains open to the idea of staying in the Premier League with another club.

Mourinho is facing other issue with Marouane Fellaini though– unavailable against Arsenal because of a knee injury — set to be a free agent in the summer.

He said: “Sometimes players decide to go in this direction, which is the right that they have, they gamble, they gamble because, you know, imagine one of these players has a big knee injury. If one of these players has one of these injuries, probably next season, he is without a club.

“Players have the right to do that and I don’t blame the clubs because the clubs, they try.

“They try, they try, but the players they have the right to go into this type of situation and in many times it is good for them, because they sometimes go on a free transfer and they can get huge salaries, other times the clubs, to keep them, they make an extra effort and they go with them also to very high salaries.

“And I repeat, I am not speaking about Alexis or Ozil, I am speaking about the general situation even as managers some of us, we prefer to let the contract go until the last year and in the last year we make the decision to stay, to leave, you know, it’s a risk for everyone, but sometimes, the risk works, and that’s football.”