What a day for Arsenal.
The club signed Borussia Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for a club record £55m, plus add-ons, before the BBC reported on Wednesday afternoon that the Gunners had also signed midfielder Mesut Ozil to a new three-and-a-half-year contract.
David Ornstein of the BBC reported that the German international will become the highest-paid player in the club’s history with an estimated wage of about £350,000 a week before tax.
Ozil joined the Gunners from Real Madrid in 2013 for a then club record £42.4m but was linked with a move away from the Emirates this season with his previous contract set to expire at the end of the summer.
The contract renewal follows the acquisitions of Henrik Mhikitaryan and Aubameyang as Arsenal look to make a late push for a spot in the top four, despite currently sitting in sixth, eight points adrift of Liverpool.
However, with the player having been linked to a Manchester United for much of the last year, their fans had a predictably salty response to the news:
https://twitter.com/DanielUtd/status/958677875196092416
Haha Ozil. We didn't need him at all anyway #passenger
— Unsainted (@RedDevil2631) January 31, 2018
https://twitter.com/calclarke1985/status/958680152074047488
Didn't want Ozil anyway
— aritama (@mahdiaritama) January 31, 2018
Yeh, sure guys, you say that now.
