Arsenal News: Emery hints at several captains after Ozil wears an armband in the rout of PSG

Unai Emery, Arsenal's head coach , suggested that Mesut Ozil could be part of the pack. Per Mertesacker being named coach of the club, Arsenal has not yet named the defender's successor as skipper.

During his stay in Seville, Emery used different players and the Spaniard already said that he wanted "Five Captains" at Arsenal

Ozil wore the armband during the 5-1 defeat of former Emery club, Paris Saint-Germain, following the World Cup and his announcement that he will no longer play the 29-year-old striker was on the scoresheet while Alexandre Lacazette hit twice with Rob Holding and Eddie Nketiah also in top form during a broad victory in the International Champions Cup.

With Laurent Kosciel At the end of the year, with an Achilles injury and an experienced goalkeeper, Petr Cech, likely to be replaced by Bernd Leno, Ozil is one of the best the most experienced players on the side.

But Emery seemed to indicate that he could avoid appointing a fixed captain for the 2018-1919 campaign because he still considers a number of candidates for the role.

"We work together and give responsibility to the player," Emery said of Ozil

"I think he can take responsibility as a captain, but do not forget Koscielny because he is also a captain. "

" Petr Cech and Aaron [Ramsey] played as captains in friendly matches, maybe I think of one more player …

"This is not still finished, we'll be done, I'll tell you once it's done, we have Koscielny who is injured and five more captains "

" Petr Cech, Aaron Ramsey, Mesut – and I will continue to search another one or two. "

Ozil resigned from international duty after an extraordinary attack on the German FA, which he accused of discrimination after being criticized for meeting the controversial president Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the World Cup.

The midfielder seemed happy to be back on the field for Arsenal and Emery suggested that he could build the team's attack around Ozil.

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"We want to give him the best position where he feels good on the ground," said Emery

"We started today with Mohamed [Elneny] and Matteo [Guendouzi] and then they tried to find through the lines of the players like Mesut and [Henrikh] Mkhitaryan.

"It depends, because Mesut can play on the right. We want to find with their quality, with their good positioning. I think that in the first period we played well. "