Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has said the situation surrounding Mesut Ozil's exclusion is "really sad" and is expected to face questions about the German playmaker whenever his team loses.
Ozil is under contract until June 2021 and is Arsenal's highest earner on a reported £350,000 pounds ($452,830) per week. However, he has not played this season after being left out of the 25-man Premier League squad, and last played for the Gunners in March.
The 32-year-old German was also left out of their Europa League squad, leaving him only eligible for Under-23 games.
"I'm hurt because I don't like any player in my squad not to have the possibility to participate, or to compete, for me it is really sad because I don't think anybody deserves that," Arteta said.
"But at the end of the day I'm sitting here to make decisions, to make the decisions that, in my opinion, are the best for the football club. And this is what I have to do."
Ozil's high-profile absence continues to be a major talking point and Arteta said he was resigned to having to deal with the issue. With Arsenal having lost three of their past four Premier League games to sit in the bottom half of the table - and a lack of creativity being a regular criticism - questions concerning Ozil and the role he could play have become frequent.
"The moment that you lose football matches his name is going to come up and when you win, it won’t," Arteta said.
Asked whether Ozil could find his way back into the team, Arteta said: “Well everybody can and I think since I arrived here you see where some players have started and where they are right now, their careers are completely changed and they have earned that right. We gave them the opportunities and they took them.
"With Mesut at the moment, with the squad list, obviously he cannot be involved. I try to be as clear as possible with him and with all the media and fans because they deserve to know the reasons why and some people will understand and other people won't understand it because of what he’s done for the club."
Arsenal, who are six points off leaders Leicester City, visit Leeds United in the Premier League on Sunday.
Some of Darwish's last words
"They see their tomorrows slipping out of their reach. And though it seems to them that everything outside this reality is heaven, yet they do not want to go to that heaven. They stay, because they are afflicted with hope." - Mahmoud Darwish, to attendees of the Palestine Festival of Literature, 2008
His life in brief: Born in a village near Galilee, he lived in exile for most of his life and started writing poetry after high school. He was arrested several times by Israel for what were deemed to be inciteful poems. Most of his work focused on the love and yearning for his homeland, and he was regarded the Palestinian poet of resistance. Over the course of his life, he published more than 30 poetry collections and books of prose, with his work translated into more than 20 languages. Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers, most significantly Marcel Khalife. Darwish died on August 9, 2008 after undergoing heart surgery in the United States. He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour.
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Moral education needed in a 'rapidly changing world'
Moral education lessons for young people is needed in a rapidly changing world, the head of the programme said.
Alanood Al Kaabi, head of programmes at the Education Affairs Office of the Crown Price Court - Abu Dhabi, said: "The Crown Price Court is fully behind this initiative and have already seen the curriculum succeed in empowering young people and providing them with the necessary tools to succeed in building the future of the nation at all levels.
"Moral education touches on every aspect and subject that children engage in.
"It is not just limited to science or maths but it is involved in all subjects and it is helping children to adapt to integral moral practises.
"The moral education programme has been designed to develop children holistically in a world being rapidly transformed by technology and globalisation."
