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 The German has fallen out of favour under Unai Emery, meaning his Arsenal career is now at a crossroad

 The Gunners appeared to have made a major blunder when offering Ozil a new contract worth £350,000 per week last year

 Now they are having difficulty finding the finances to fund any additions in the January transfer market

 Unai Emery is in desperate need of reinforcements after being hit with a series of injuries but can only sign players on loan

 But the boss may now have been handed a lifeline. According to the Daily Star, Inter Milan are willing to take the attacking midfielder on loan for the rest of the season, permitting that Arsenal pay half of his wages

 The news comes in the midst of Arsenal's approach of Ivan Perisic. The club yesterday launched a loan move for the Croatian with an option to buy for £35million in the summer

 According to Gazzetta dello Sport, Perisic's entourage LIAN SPORTS have asked Inter to sell the winger to Arsenal

 At the moment there is no agreement between the two clubs but Arsenal remain keen on bringing in some new additions before the end of the window

 Italian journalist Nicolo Schira gave Unai Emery a reason to be optimistic a deal can be completed

 He tweeted: "Ivan #Perisic's agent has asked #Inter to be sold to #Arsenal. He wants to leave to Premier League, but in this moment there isn't an agreement between #Gunners and Marotta on bid (#Emery has offered a loan with option to buy, Inter wants €35M)

Contacts ongoing. #transfers #AFC" Inter boss Luciano Spalletti hinted before Arsenal's interest that the player would be subject to offers in the January window

 "It's normal for him to talk about him in the market, because he's a strong player," he said

 "We do not talk about those who have no requests, we talk about him because he has and everyone would like to have him in their team

 "But this must then be realised with numbers that support the thing. "The player knows these situations well and it is expected that he will continue to do what he has always done, trying to go and get more

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For more infomation >> Arsenal transfer news: Inter Milan willing to sign Mesut Ozil if Emery agrees key demand - Duration: 2:53.

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✅ Breaking News - The summit is a success, officials and the SFA agree to present the video referees - Duration: 6:45.

The SFA and SPFL will step up plans to introduce VAR into Scottish football after a successful high-level summit between warring Premiership managers and top-level referees

Hampden chief executive Ian Maxwell invited the feuding parties to air their grievances at McDiarmid Park last night after a series of high-profile controversies

All Premiership managers - except Kilmarnock boss Steve Clarke and Hamilton's Martin Canning - attended the Perth meeting

Share this article Share Match officials Andrew Dallas, Kevin Clancy and John Beaton were also there alongside SFA compliance officer Clare Whyte and referees chief John Fleming

The possibility of full-time referees was raised but VAR was the big winner, getting unanimous backing from both sides

Maxwell has already held talks with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) about introducing VAR into Scottish football

However, it will not happen quickly as it takes referees a year to be trained in the new technology and clubs will also need to find the money to fund it

After summit, which had stretched over two hours, had concluded, an upbeat Maxwell said: 'It was a really good, positive meeting and everyone engaged in it

'It was good to get the managers, officials and the association together in the same room

'There is a real appetite to fully investigate VAR. The managers see the benefits of it

'This is something that between ourselves and the SPFL we will investigate further

'John Fleming and I have already had a conference call with IFAB, who essentially own VAR and implement it on behalf of FIFA

'We will now have to produce a fully-costed model because there are different ways to implement it

'IFAB have said to speak to similar-sized nations and hear about their experience of it

'It's something we want to get on the table as quickly as we can. But it's a long-term project

It's not a quick fix and that needs to be fully understood by everyone involved.'You need to see what you can use it for and what you can't, so there is a training element to it which takes around 12 months

'So it's not a quick fix but it would definitely be worth it in the long run.'I think Scottish football can afford it and ultimately it will come down to a club decision

'The SPFL have an amount of money and most of that is distributed to the clubs. So if there is an element which has to be taken to cover the cost of VAR then that's a decision that will be made

But the managers were very positive about it tonight.'There were also discussions on full-time referees and the decision making processes, but VAR was the main thing

'The summit came after referee Beaton required police protection after threats following his handling of the Old Firm game at Ibrox on December 29

Celtic released a statement after Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos was not hit with retrospective punishment despite being involved in three flashpoints in the match

Rangers had previously issued their own letter to the SFA complaining about Willie Collum after his controversial decision to send off Daniel Candeias during a win at St Mirren in November

And Hearts boss Craig Levein was recently hit with a ban for critical comments made about referee Bobby Madden's handling of his side's 2-1 home loss to Rangers in December

Last night, Hibs boss Neil Lennon was put forward as a spokesman for the league managers and he said an agreement had been reached not to publicly criticise referees

'There has to be a level of respect for the match officials from all of us,' he said

'It was agreed we as managers should take more responsibility for that aspect, which is quite right

'Overall, it was a very productive meeting. The atmosphere was very respectful with a lot of debate and humour

There were no voices raised and everyone came out feeling better about things.'Everyone got a chance to speak and Clare Whyte the compliance officer was there, too, and she was very impressive

'The most unanimous decision amongst the referees and managers was on VAR.'The referees felt it would be a great help for them and the managers as well want it introduced in some sort of form

Predominantly it will be down to the clubs to agree on how it is financed.'Earlier in the day, Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers had stated his desire for full-time referees, although it seems that issue has fallen down the list of priorities for the moment

'Referees going full-time is a big issue for me,' he said before the summit.'If you have refereed a game at the weekend then you go to your other job on a Monday then your full concentration is not on refereeing

'These guys are then going into high-pressure situations and asked to deal with that type of pressure

'But (if referees are full time) they can come together on a Monday - because it is their job - and analyse and look at areas where they could get better

'They could be mentored and exchange ideas with other referees and that preparation would give them more confidence - and confidence makes people better and more prepared to deal with pressurised situations

'I respect that some of the referees have good jobs but I do think there is a need for (professionalism) and there is also a need to protect players

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