Johnny Nicholson: It feels wrong to pay a footballer £350k a week

Mesut Ozil is on high wages at Arsenal despite not getting much game time but he was given a contract and the club are duty bound to honour it. Picture: Stuart Franklin

At last it is over. As Mesut Ozil leaves London to play in Turkey for Fenerbache, having not played a game since last March and being out of favour at Arsenal for a couple of years, the whole affair leaves a very acrid stench hanging in the north London air.

This prolonged story symbolises everything that is wrong with the morals, economics and business of the Premier League and its clubs.