Why Arsenal Hierarchy Supported My Decision To Bench Gunners Midfielder, Says Emery

Arsenal manager, Unai Emery has revealed that his decision to drop Mesut Ozil on the bench for most of the matches in the Premier League this ongoing season was backed by the Gunners hierarchy

The former Germany international has not featured in the last five matchday squads, with head coach Emery offering little explanation as to his surprise decision to ostracise the highest-paid player in the club’s history.

Emery has played five different players in Ozil’s preferred number 10 role over the last two games – a 1-0 loss at Sheffield United and a fortunate 3-2 Europa League victory over Vitoria – while the former Real Madrid man has been sat at home.

Ozil missed Arsenal’s last five games. Source lixi88.live

But the Spaniard has revealed talks with those high up in the club saw an agreement reached that dropping Ozil was the right move.

‘Here, we have one agreed strategy as a club and as a team,’ he said, when asked if there was any pressure from above to put Ozil back into the team.

‘Because the most important thing is the club, the team and finding a performance. Previously we were all speaking between us to take that decision.

‘I know all the supporters want to know something but now is not the moment. I think it is not the moment to speak about him.

‘We are going to play on Sunday and in the next matches and we are going to decide, and when we can speak about him something differently we will look.’