Mesut Ozil is one of the most gifted footballers in the Premier League, but after several injuries in his first two years at Arsenal the Germany international was unable to impose his qualities in the beginning.

However, the playmaker is coming off the back of his finest campaign since signing for the Gunners three years ago, justifying the £42.5million (Dh225m) fee it took to prize him away from Real Madrid.

Unfortunately for Arsene Wenger’s side, Ozil’s undoubted technical talents, polished passing and surgical vision wasn’t enough to propel them to Premier League glory last term as they finished second to Leicester City.

But during a visit to the Arsenal Soccer School Dubai at The Sevens Stadium he pinpointed where they went wrong and talked about his signature celebration, how he feels Germany will fare at Euro 2016 in France and becoming a leader with his national side.

You tweeted your delight at pipping rivals Tottenham into second in the Premier League, how do you assess last season overall?

I think for us in the end it was important to qualify directly for the Champions League which is the second or third place. To be second in the last game of the season and be on top of Tottenham was also good for us and our fans. It was a good finish to the season.

Of course there’s been a lot of speculation about Arsene Wenger’s future at the club, what have you made of it all?

For me it’s important as a player that I concentrate, play football and that I do my best for the team and myself. I’m not telling something about the future of a manager, it’s not my work to tell this for the club, it’s for the club to decide about. It’s not for me to decide.

Arsenal were strongly favoured to finally end their 12-year wait for the league title, why is it you failed to achieve this aim?

I think we dropped a lot of points that we shouldn’t have dropped like against smaller teams and I think that was the point in the season where as a team we weren’t strong enough to take just a point and go ahead.

Especially after the Barcelona game we lost some points. That was a time when we weren’t good enough to just take points and go.

How do you as a team prevent this from being the case again next season?

It’s a long season and a lot of things must go right in the season. One of the things is players getting injured which is one factor definitely.

On the other hand we just have to focus more and with stronger players maybe coming in be competitive for next season and we will see where we end up at the end.