SICK OZIL CAUSING GUNNERS PROBLEM
that already boasts Cristiano Ronaldo who earns £28m a year. Ramsey completed a two-part medical with Juventus last month and will join the club on July 1 — bringing to an end his 11-year career at Arsenal. An Arsenal statement read: ‘Everyone at Arsenal Football Club wishes Aaron Ramsey a happy and successful future. ‘Aaron’s made a fantastic contribution to our club since joining from Cardiff City in 2008. He has always been a consummate professional and will always have a special place in the hearts and memories of Arsenal fans around the world.’ Meanwhile, the future of Mesut Ozil has been plunged into deeper uncertainty following his latest noshow. The German missed Saturday’s win at Huddersfield after reporting in sick. Ozil has now missed as many games as he has played this season due to illness, persistent back problems, a niggling knee injury or being left out. The fact Ozil effectively ruled himself out of contention for the clash against Huddersfield has added to internal concerns over why the club’s top-earner is missing so many games. Manager Unai Emery has tried to give Ozil an opportunity to revive his flagging Gunners career, even making the 30-year-old — who earns £350,000-per-week — captain in some matches. But there is obvious concern over why Ozil is so regularly unavailable. The midfielder’s fitness and wellbeing will be closely monitored in the coming weeks. Ozil also missed games towards the end of last season due to sickness and back problems. Elsewhere, the investigation into the crash that claimed the life of Emiliano Sala is likely to take a year to conclude and cannot be used by Cardiff City as a reason to delay paying Nantes for the player, Sportsmail can reveal. The UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) indicated that the average time taken to complete such an inquiry is 12 months. The inquiry will include interviews with the Piper Malibu’s owner, whose identity must be made known to the AAIB. Although Cardiff have indicated that they do not intend to make any moves until the conclusion of official investigations into the crash, in which pilot David Ibbotson also died, legal experts say the club have no grounds on which to delay the first tranche of the agreed £15million fee. James Earl, a partner at legal firm Fladgate LLP, said that the contract agreeing the 28-year-old’s transfer would have involved Cardiff making a cast-iron commitment to paying Nantes the money and that the crash will not have changed that.