A footballer earning £350,000-a-week refuses a 12.5 per cent pay cut agreed by nearly all of his team-mates during a global pandemic. Surely it's as simple as that? Except, in the case of Mesut Ozil, it isn't quite that straightforward.
Mikel Arteta has rallied all but three of the Arsenal playing squad into accepting cuts to help the club with cashflow issue while the coronavirus pandemic keeps football halted indefinitely.
Ozil, Arsenal's highest earner, is the one known name who has refused to lower his wage, as it stands, while he surveys the true impact of the virus upon the game.