Arsene Wenger imploring Mikel Arteta to play Mesut Ozil so as to not waste his talent suggests he fears the Spaniard will make the same mistake he made.
Wenger signed Ozil from Real Madrid for a then club record £42million in 2013. The Frenchman was under pressure to make the transfer a success, but Wenger didn't always get the best out of Ozil.
Ozil would sometimes complain of illness or back pain, in the same way he did under both Unai Emery and now Arteta. This resulted in him missing a host of Arsenal matches, and saw him criticised by fans and pundits.
In 2019 The Times reported that Wenger - with the benefit of hindsight - wished he'd been harder on the German, and blamed himself for Ozil's waning levels of motivation.
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