A surreal scene played out during Arsenal's win against Rapid Wien in the Europa League on Thursday night, as Mesut Ozil live-tweeted a match he wasn't able to play in after failing to even make Arsenal's squad for the competition. Meanwhile, a new face starred for Spurs, but not that one, and Kemar Roofe scored the greatest goal in history.
If there was ever anything that could perfectly encapsulate the general absurdity of modern life, football and a few things in between, this was it. Last night, Mesut Ozil became the highest paid social media manager in the world as he live tweeted Arsenal’s win over Rapid Wien in the Europa League, a match and competition he is unable to play in after failing even to make Arsenal’s squad.
It was undoubtedly funny to see one of the greatest creative talents of the past 15 years reduced to issuing Twitter polls to see which of his colleagues were the man of the match, but also disorientating, and somewhat grotesque. What better sums up the largesse and waste of football in 2020 than a man paid £350,000 per week to sit on Tweetdeck all evening instead of contributing on the pitch?
Having issued a serious statement on Twitter on Wednesday making clear his displeasure at being exiled from Arsenal’s first-team squads for both Europe and the Premier League, finding that “loyalty is hard to come by nowadays”, Ozil teed off yesterday with a masterclass in passive-aggressive tweeting.
What was certainly clear was that the tweeting was not done there. If he can’t play football, then Ozil is apparently lining up his next career as a social influencer, or perhaps a big-money move to Italy to become the new @ASRomaEN admin.
Because across the course of the evening we got immaculate use of Twitter handles and hashtags.

A consummate display all round. Great shift Mesut. Now here’s £50,000 for the day’s work.
The word you have to reach for here is surreal. After also pledging on Twitter to pay Gunnersaurus’s wages and keep the man inside the Arsenal mascot from redundancy, Ozil appears to be conducting a war of weaponised charm against those in the Arsenal hierarchy who have decided that one of the most generously gifted playmakers to ever play for the club has nothing to offer the first team over the course of the season. That Joe Willock or Mohamed Elneny are bigger assets than a one-time club record signing.
Of course Ozil is not without fault in this scenario. He clearly hasn’t responded properly to the sporting demands Mikel Arteta has placed on every member of his squad, and let’s not forget that Unai Emery also found this a frustrating exercise. Neither manager has been convinced by a player Wenger indulged.
But if either of the two main theories are correct: that Arsenal are either keeping him out of the team due to pressure from China over his support of the Uighur, or that the powers that be are unhappy with his stance over the pay cut for players which he refused, months before Arsenal made 55 staff redundant in any case, then this is more than just absurd. It is grossly unfair.

Either way, you can’t escape the conclusion that this is above all a massive failure in management across the club. Giving him a giant contract in the first place. Not finding a way to utilise a player with extraordinary gifts. Allowing it to reach a situation where he’s spending his night tweeting like an Arsenal blogger about a match he should really be running.
Oh, and Thomas Partey had a stonking debut and goals from David Luiz and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang overturned a 1-0 deficit as Arsenal won 2-1.

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Dude is forming emotional blackmail.

The club made it clear to him that the wanted to move him on over the summer, but he refused and stayed put.

He should get the fvck out.

mesuit is losing it by the day....call the board directors or owners and discuss how yo leave arsenal this January even its for free....you need to start playing football and stop all this jokes online because history would always remember you for what you did and the football you played and not the wage you would get till next June..
even if it's division two club in Germany, jus accept it and move on, after all you ain't better than James dt moved from Madrid to Everton or barkely dt moved from Chelsea to villa..

paulolee:
mesuit is losing it by the day....call the board directors or owners and discuss how yo leave arsenal this January even its for free....you need to start playing football and stop all this jokes online because history would always remember you for what you did and the football you played and not the wage you would get till next June..
even if it's division two club in Germany, jus accept it and move on, after all you ain't better than James dt moved from Madrid to Everton or barkely dt moved from Chelsea to villa..

or Wayne Rooney that moves from Manchester United to Derby County.

I been think say na lalasticlala be the best paid social media admin ohh

poor guy.
but op sef ur too wicked!
i hope ozil never gets to see such headline