Ex-Arsenal player Jack Wilshere is surprised that former Gunners teammate Mesut Ozil has been frozen out of the team under current Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta. Ozil was left out of both the squads for the Europa League and the Premier League this season. There has been calls for him to return to the first team as the Gunners continue to struggle to create chances to score goals. The lack of an efficient creative presence has affected the Arsenal team this season. The Gunners are surprisingly in the bottom six on the Premier League table. At the start of the season, senior players like Mesut Ozil and SokratisPapasthathopoulos were consciously omitted from the Arsenal team.

Jack Wilshere talked exclusively to Sky Sports about his career and the exclusion of Mesut Ozil from the Arsenal team. Jack Wilshere and Mesut Ozil shared the Arsenal dressing room for five years before the former left the club to join West Ham United as a free agent. (more…)