Cesc Fabregas is better than Mesut Ozil says Former Arsenal star Jack Wilshere

Jack Wilshere explains key difference between Mesut Ozil and Cesc Fabregas

Former Arsenal Star Wilshere played alongside both men during his time at the Emirates

Jack Wilshere reckons Cesc Fabregas had the edge over Mesut Ozil because of his greater ability to a control a game.

Former Arsenal star Wilshere played with both men during his time in north Londion before he joined West Ham in 2018 after an injury-hit spell to sign a £100,000-per-week deal with the Hammers.

Sadly the England international’s bad luck has continued in east London, where he has made just 14 Premier League appearances in two seasons so far.

But during his time with the Gunners, Wilshere had the pleasure of playing alongside both Ozil and Fabregas, who are both hailed among Europe’s elite midfielders.

And the 28-year-old hailed Fabregas more so than Ozil, as a player who could take the game by the scruff of the neck and dominate the opposition.

And the midfielder has explained the key difference between his former teammates.

He said: “They can change a game and they can control a game – more so Fabregas could control a game. That’s the difference.

“Ozil wouldn’t really get involved in the build-up but Cesc would drop. I’ve seen games where he must have greated 10 to 12 goalscoring opportunities just by dropping off.

“I’ve had this conversation with him recently where that player is sort of going out the game a little bit.

“Not that quick, not really strong but just playing with your brain. I played in a few games where he [Cesc] was man marked which says it all really.

“Someone who is not going to really run away from you with the ball or beat and push you off the ball.

“To literally be man marked, I remember we played Bolton once and Fabrice Muamba followed him for the whole game.”

Meanwhile, Tony Adams says Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang could leave Arsenal

Adams: “Now we seem to be selling our best players and you are never going to recruit a championship squad selling all your best players.”

Tony Adams fears Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang could become the latest big-name player to depart Arsenal this summer.

Gunners legend Adams says the club will not become Premier League contenders again while they continue to pursue what he considers a flawed transfer policy.

Arsenal won the top flight four times (Premier League twice) while Adams was at the club – and went on to claim a third Premier League crown in 2004.

They have not added to that haul since and, with the London club only ninth in the Premier League, there has been speculation that top scorer Aubameyang may leave.

Adams thinks that is the sort of deal that has become all too common at the Emirates and told Sky Sports: “Quite possibly, he could walk out the door.

“I loved [former manager] Arsene Wenger’s principles, that no player was bigger than the club, and he moved players on if it made sense for the club financially.

“He was strong with that and he got Champions League football every year but it did stand in the way of recruitment – so we have become a club that is selling the best players.

“If I was a coach I’d be saying ‘don’t sell Aubameyang at any price, we need to recruit, bring players through the academy and keep our best players’.”

Adams pointed out that the board at Arsenal adopted a completely different strategy during his heyday at the club.

He said: “They bang on about the class of ’92 [at Manchester United] – in our class of ’83 we had six internationals in our youth team – Niall Quinn, Paul Merson, Michael Thomas, Rocky [David Rocastle], me and Martin [Keown].

“But put that on top of [board member] Danny Fiszman putting a lot of money into the club in ’95, ’96 and we were getting world class players come to Arsenal football club.

“[Manchester United manager] Alex Ferguson came in for me but I wouldn’t leave and I said to the chairman ‘have we got ambition at the club?’

“He said ‘don’t worry, we are injecting a lot of money and we are going to go for it’.

“I stayed and the rest is history – Dennis [Bergkamp] came and Nicolas Anelka, [Patrick] Vieira, Manu [Emmanuel Petit], Robert Pires – we had five World Cup winners in the team.

“It is a completely different club today and I think recruitment at Arsenal for a good few years has not been great.

“Now we seem to be selling our best players and you are never going to recruit a championship squad selling all your best players.”