Fabrizio Romano has told The Arsenal Lounge that Mesut Ozil has been offered to Juventus by Arsenal four or five times in the past year.
Ozil has been excluded from Arsenal’s squad this season, and looks to have no future at the Emirates Stadium, with his contract running down.
The Gunners are now desperate to sell him in the January transfer window, but Ozil’s wages are apparently complicating matters.
Arsenal have actually offered the German playmaker to Juventus multiple times recently, but the Serie A side have had no interest.
And Romano said: “The situation with Ozil is that there is a feeling with people within transfers, like directors and agents, that they can’t trust the real situation they can’t understand what’s happening.
“It’s crazy because sometime you have a good player and he’s out from the team, it’s absolutely crazy.
“In my opinion this was a mistake from Arsenal’s board. They were ready to sell this player before, but the feeling is the player wants to leave and Arsenal want to make him leave, but at the moment it’s so complicated because of his wages.
“Many times he has been offered to Italian clubs, and I was speaking to the board of Juventus, and they said they have been offered him four or five times in the last year but they never wanted him.”
The problem for Arsenal and Ozil is that many potential suitors may also have been put off him now, due to his lack of first-team action.
With such a small amount of clubs able to afford his wages, Ozil’s options if he does leave Arsenal look extremely limited.
Ozil has publicly suggested that he wants to break back into Arsenal’s team, but that seems highly unlikely, with Mikel Arteta clearly favouring other options since his arrival.
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