Arsenal's out-of-favour playmaker Mesut Ozil has been left out of their Europa League squad for the 2020-21 campaign, giving rise to media speculation that he might have played his last game for the Premier League side. Ozil, 31, who is under contract with Arsenal until June 2021 and earns a reported £350,000 per week, has not played for the team this season and made 18 Premier League starts in the previous campaign. Defenders Sokratis Papastathopoulos and William Saliba were also left out of the squad. Read MoreArsenal were in danger of missing out on European football for the first time in 25 years following an eighth-placed league finish last season but won the FA Cup to qualify for the continent's second-tier club competition. They take on League of Ireland champions Dundalk, Austria's Rapid Vienna and Norway's Molde in Group B of the Europa League which begins with a trip to Austria on October 22.

Source: Irish Independent October 08, 2020 12:57 UTC