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14th Mar 2016

VIDEO: Fans stop Mesut Ozil’s car and beg him not to leave Arsenal

JOE

If he wasn’t thinking of leaving already, he may be considering it now.

Arsenal fans are not in a good place. Both morale-wise or emotionally. On the verge of Champions League elimination, 11 points behind Premier League leaders Leicester City, and dumped out of the FA Cup by Watford.

Such is their fragile mindset that they’re acting a little clingy to their star names. That’s the only explanation for crowding the vehicle of Mesut Ozil like this and bizarrely pleading for him not to leave the Emirates.

And yet surely such behaviour is somewhat counter-productive. The German is probably wondering whether it’s something he should start considering if Gooners are at such a low, desperate ebb…