While Oxlade-Chamberlain would prefer to be playing right now, he is doing all he can to ensure that he will be ready to hit the ground running when the right opportunity presents itself.<\/p>\n
He added when asked what his current schedule looks like: “Just a lot of waiting around, training and keeping myself fit. All that fun stuff that isn\u2019t that fun! It\u2019s a different situation for me to be in, I had that at Liverpool when I became a free agent, I saw my contract out there. I had it for a month or two, and then I signed in Turkey on August 14th, so it wasn\u2019t like now. Now the season is well and truly underway, and there\u2019s that awkward bit of waiting and you\u2019re missing out and want to be playing.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s different \u2013 it\u2019s not a nice situation for any footballer to be in, but I\u2019m fortunate enough that I\u2019ve put myself into a situation to choose what\u2019s best for me, and I\u2019ve said no to things. There\u2019s more in play now \u2013 family, children, I\u2019m being a bit more selective. Ultimately, the whole thing is that I want to get back playing again as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
“There\u2019s obviously stuff you can do to be proactive yourself, maybe even find opportunities or letting people know you\u2019d be open to opportunities. Ultimately, it\u2019s out of your control. You\u2019re sat waiting for a call, for a team to decide they need you and that you can bring value. It\u2019s a lot of waiting around.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Oxlade-Chamberlain would prefer to be playing right now, he is doing all he can to ensure that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":362568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[175848,5407,92611,220,221,62,18066,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-362567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-a-oxlade-chamberlain","9":"tag-arsenal","10":"tag-besiktas","11":"tag-premier-league","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-transfers","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115509406141266722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}