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Mesut Ozil aimed a brutal put-down in the direction of Piers Morgan during a back and forth between the pair on Twitter.
Ozil has slipped totally out of favour at Arsenal in recent months, and has been using his time on the sidelines to up his social media game.
While his team-mates have been on the pitch, Ozil has often been found tweeting about the games as they progress.
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Ahead of Arsenal's meeting with Leeds United at Elland Road on Sunday, Ozil wrote: 'Let's goooooo.'
The tweet prompted a response from Gunners fan Morgan, who said: 'I wish you would, Mesut. For your sake and Arsenal's.'
Ozil chose to respond, and his answer could certainly raise a few eyebrows.
'Piers, was that really you, or was your phone hacked?' was Ozil's response.
Morgan, the former editor of the Daily Mirror, is never short of a retort and he fired back with a couple of tweets of his own.
'First tackle you've put in this season - well done!,' he said, which was followed up with a more lengthy response.
Morgan wrote: 'I must say Mesut Ozil I admire your nerve in trolling Arsenal fans who pay your wages given you're getting £350k-a-week of OUR money to sit on your a*se doing f*ck all. Try training as hard as you work on being a clever dick. Then the manager might pick you.'
As Ozil has pointed out with regularity, he says he is training hard in a bid to win back the faith of manager Mikel Arteta - but it has so far been to no avail.
Ozil's last game for Arsenal was the 1-0 win over West Ham on March 7.
Arteta has elected to go in a different direction to Ozil but the Spaniard could have done with some of the former Germany international's creative spark as his side were toothless in Sunday's 0-0 draw with Leeds.
The Gunners did have to play a sizeable chunk of the second half with 10 men following the dismissal of Nicolas Pepe, who was shown a straight red card for aiming a headbutt at Ezgjan Alioski, but they lacked a cutting edge in the attacking third.Mikel Arteta says he was pleased to hear Mesut Ozil had been supporting Arsenal from afar during their 2-1 win over Rapid Vienna on Thursday.
Ozil did not travel with his Gunners team-mates as Arteta left him out of his squads for both the Europa League and the Premier League.
The 32-year-old has not played for Arsenal since football returned from coronavirus lockdown but has been at the centre of attention regardless, with speculation around his future rife.
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Ozil criticised Arsenal after being left out of Arteta's squads, noting that 'loyalty is hard to come by' in football in a public message.
Before kick-off against Vienna, though, he wrote on Twitter that he would be supporting his team-mates from afar, predicting a 4-1 Gunners win. Ozil continued tweeting throughout the game, and celebrated their victory with a Man of the Match poll.
Arteta was made aware of the tweets after the game and commented: 'It's great. It's what I want from all the players that are in our squad, I wouldn't expect anything different - so it's good to hear.'
The Spaniard was also asked whether he was frustrated at the amount of media coverage surrounding a player who hasn't been on the pitch.
'No, it's part of the situation we have and we have big players in this position it's normal that people want to know, that fans want to have information and you guys want to ask the questions,' he replied.
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'So I take it in a natural way and try to respond with honesty and clarity and give the information that is available from the inside.'
Arsenal went behind in Vienna after a disastrous error from Bernd Leno, the goalkeeper giving away possession inside his own area to gift a goal to Taxiarchis Fountas. Mount and blade 2 steam.
Matt mercer twitter. Arteta admitted that individual errors are to be expected as he implements his tactical vision at the club.
He added: 'They will understand better and better the type of balls we have to play in those areas and to who, in relation to where the pressure is coming from and the type of distances that you can manage from the opponent.
'After that, everything will be better. In a split second you have to make a decision, you have to make the right touch and the right pass. The opponents as well are intuitive and they are waiting for that.
He added: 'They will understand better and better the type of balls we have to play in those areas and to who, in relation to where the pressure is coming from and the type of distances that you can manage from the opponent.
'After that, everything will be better. In a split second you have to make a decision, you have to make the right touch and the right pass. The opponents as well are intuitive and they are waiting for that.
'It's something we have to keep working on because we want to play the way I want to. It's necessary that I keep using both in our build-up play.'