Mesut Ozil transfer: Arsenal midfielder set to sign up for Fenerbahce as agreement nears on contract termination

Mesut Ozil’s seven-and-a-half year stay at Arsenal will end in the coming days with the two parties set to agree to the termination of his $475,000-a-week contract.

That will free Ozil to sign up for Fenerbahce, who have beaten competition from MLS franchises including D.C. United to protected the 32-year-old’s signature. There has long been reciprocal interest between the Turkish giants and Ozil, who grew up supporting the club.

Ozil had been because of earn a further $9.5million before his contract expired and even though there is an agreement in precept between all parties that he’ll move to Fenerbahce there is still the matter of how much of his remaining salary Arsenal will pay to be ironed out. An agreement on that is near then again and the German is free to shuttle to Istanbul and conclude affairs ahead of his move.

The 32-year-old had been left out of Arsenal’s Premier League and Europa League squads at the start of the season having not played a minute of first-team football since May. Despite the Gunners work to trim back an oversized first-team there used to be no indication that manager Mikel Arteta would bring Ozil back in the fold, a matter which prompted the player and his representatives to soften their stance that they would see out their contract in full.

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Ozil has been the highest-paid player at the Emirates Stadium since signing his close half a million dollar a week contract in 2018, terms that have transform an ever greater financial burden as Arsenal failed to qualify for the Champions League. Inside a year of agreeing those terms the club hierarchy were in search of ways to receive Ozil, who struggled for consistent game time under Unai Emery and Arteta, off the wage invoice.

Since signing his new contract Ozil has played 73 games for Arsenal, scoring 8 goals and providing 13 assists. In complete he leaves north London with a record of 44 goals and 77 assists in 254 appearances. He won three FA Cups in that period and used to be named the club’s player of the year in 2015-16.

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