Mesut Özil faces a potentially awkward conversation with Arsène Wenger to explain why he went to a nightclub in Berlin on Saturday night, having been ruled out of Arsenal’s Premier League fixture at Newcastle United earlier in the day through illness.
Wenger will seek Özil’s side of the story and, in the past, the manager has had to remind some of his players about their responsibilities; most recently, Jack Wilshere, who was pictured in a London nightclub holding a shisha pipe.
But Arsenal do not seem too bothered about this situation at the moment, not least because no one ever said that Özil, who is back in Germany on international duty, was seriously ill.
He was sent home from training one day last week but he was merely a few degrees under the weather and, with Tomas Rosicky fit, Wenger decided to give him a breather. Özil has played a lot in recent weeks – he had started in each of Arsenal’s previous 12 matches in all competitions.
