It took seven-and-a-half years for Mesut Ozil’s Arsenal career to decline from his potentially game-changing arrival to its nightmarish conclusion, but for much of the 12 months since, his supposed dream move to Fenerbahce has seemed destined to follow a similar course.
A year ago today, Ozil ended a spell of exile that had seen him go the best part of a year without a first-team appearance at Arsenal, swapping north London for Istanbul and the club he had supported as a boy growing up within the Turkish diaspora in the German city of Gelsenkirchen.
