Mesut Ozil is on Inter Milan’s radar ahead of the January transfer window (Picture: Getty)

Inter Milan chairman Erick Thohir has confirmed that the club are ‘definitely looking at’ the possibility of signing Arsenal star Mesut Ozil.

Ozil has made 166 appearances for the Gunners since moving to north London back in 2013 but the 28-year-old midfielder is being heavily linked with a move to the San Siro in the January transfer window.

Reports suggest Arsenal are sounding out potential suitors for Ozil – and are keen on a swap deal involving Joao Mario – but Inter do not want to lose the Portugal midfielder.

However, Inter’s minority owner, Thohir, has made it clear that a deal for Ozil is being considered, with the German out of contract at the Emirates next summer.

Erick Thohir has confirmed that Mesut Ozil is being monitored (Picture: Getty)

‘He [Ozil] is definitely one of those players we are looking at but the last January signings of [Lukas] Podolski and [Xherdan] Shaqiri proves winter signings can be fail to live up to expectations,’ Thohir said.

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‘We have many new players already, we have tried to build the best possible team with the resources we had.’

Alexis Sanchez, who missed out on a £60million deadline day move to Manchester City, is also out of contract at Arsenal at the end of the 2017/18 campaign.

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