Mesut Özil dilemma remains for Unai Emery in his Spurs derby plans | Jonathan Wilson

German enigma continues to divide opinion at the Emirates and beyond but if his manager cannot trust him then Arsenal have a problem, and an expensive one at that

Tell me what you think about Mesut Özil, and I will tell you who you are. Or at least that is the way the endless debate around the Arsenal playmaker often seems to be framed. Are you somebody who loves beauty and grace and is prepared to accept occasional indolence as a price worth paying, or are you some sort of utilitarian box-ticker, demanding constant effort at all times? Are you a continental sophisticate, or a blunt English football man who prizes industry above imagination? But it is, of course, much more complicated than that.

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