Reflecting on his time at Arsenal, Pepe told The Athletic: "With Arteta, it wasn't well, it was good at the start. After that, the confidence wasn't really there. I got less and less game time, so there was some frustration. I'm not someone who likes being on the bench every week without justification or explanation. So yeah, that's something that created some tension."
Nicolas Pepe expressed, "There was this relentlessness, as if people didn't care about the adaptation process. It was, 'You have to perform, you have to perform.' It's like I served as an example for those that followed. Clubs now think if we're going to pay big for a player, we have to protect him."
Pepe stated, "Today, there are players who cost a lot more than me and are producing less than I did, but they don't get criticised. I think my move was shocking to some people, in the sense that it was [Arsenal's] first big fee."
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