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This Monday could turn out to be a good day in Mesut Özil's life, at least there was two good news for his future.

On the one hand, his coach Mikel Areta gave him hope that the permanent ban from the team could come to an end next year.

Özil has not played a game for Arsenal since March and has not even been on the bench for a long time.

But now Areta said, looking at him: “I'm concentrating on the players I have here now.

But we will soon have time to decide how and whatever will happen in January. "The English media saw this as a" big hint ", as the" Sun "wrote that the hapless and with the team in 15th place in the table Areta is now thinking of ordering his 32-year-old offensive player back into the squad.

That alone would be enough for Özil's happiness, but now a second, good news was making the rounds.

He could avoid having to surrender his driver's license.

On July 2nd of this year, shortly before noon on the M1, Özil was caught driving his Mercedes G-Class far too fast south at around 100 miles per hour (mph).

All just a misunderstanding

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He had claimed that after seven years in England he had actually confused kilometers per hour with miles per hour (1.61 km / h).

He was on his way to a health appointment with his daughter, he remembers.

The bottom line is that is why he drove so fast.

The Sun quotes from a written statement that he had sent the Bromley District Court: “When trying to explain my actions, I believe that it was the combination of the empty road with no other vehicles on which I measured my speed could measure, and the misunderstanding that I was traveling in km / h instead of mph. "

He added, according to the report, that he is asking the court to “keep the disqualification period to a minimum, as I drive to work every day, have personal obligations and a very young daughter.

At the present time I would be very much against having to use public transport with my little daughter.

My wife doesn't drive a car, so I necessarily have to drive my daughter to upcoming health appointments. "

Fortunately for him, he got off quite lightly.

He got six points for his offense, plus a £ 1,000 fine, £ 100 in legal costs and a court surcharge of another £ 100.

So easy to get over with a weekly salary of £ 350,000.

No question about it, it was a good day for Mesut Özil.

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