I’LL SEE OUT EVERY DAY OF MY ARSENAL CONTRACT

MESUT OZIL is the Gareth Bale of the Premier League.

Not only does he possess outrageous natural talent, he also has a contract and knows his rights.

And like the Welshman at Real Madrid, the German is not willing to leave Arsenal because the club have had a change of heart on the multimillion-pound deal they willingly offered.

Power is with the player not the club – even if he is risking not pulling on the shirt next season and effectively ending his top-level career.

Ozil, 31, said: “I’ll decide when I go, not other people. My position is clear. I’m here through to the last day of our agreement and I’ll give everything

Situations like these will never break me, they only make me stronger. I showed in the past that I can come back into the team and I will do it again.”

The playmaker signed the £350,000-a-week contract in 2018, when Arsenal panicked with only six months left on his previous deal.

Instead of losing him for nothing, the north London club committed to paying Ozil £72m over the next four years.

But like Bale, he is a star on a huge wage who is not in the team.

Ozil said: “I didn’t sign for two or three years, I signed for four and that should be respected by everyone. Things have obviously been difficult but I love Arsenal. I love to work there, I love the people in the club – the real people, those I’ve been with for a long time – and I love London, it’s my home.”

But the Gunners and Mikel Arteta do not love Ozil or his work-rate, and the German does not fit into the Spaniard’s Pep Guardiola-style vision of playing high-energy football.

Ozil (with Arteta, right) said: “It’s hard. When a player wants to leave and the club says no, the player must accept it, unless they find a

When a club wants a player to leave but the player says no, the club must accept it unless a solution can be found together. I don’t want to leave so that’s that