Arsenal defender Shkodran Mustafi has revealed he and his teammates are also finding it difficult to dealt with speculations over the future of Arsene Wenger.
The Gunners have been the news for several wrong reasons in the recent weeks one of which is the uncertain future of Arsene Wenger who has refused to extend his contract at the club where he has spent over two decades. The future of key players in the squad has also made the headlines, with the likes of Hector Bellerin, Alexis Sanchez, Alex oxlade Chamberlain and Mesut Ozil understood to be eyeing a move away from the Emirates.
Mustafi who joined Arsenal last summer, has been an impressive figure at the Emirates and belives the burden on the team, he said: “It is difficult, but we are professionals,
“We are not only paid for playing football but to be professional as well. It’s part of our job to have a little bit thicker skin.
“But in the days that we live in now, it is difficult because you see it everywhere, on TV, then you have social media where you see a lot of things.
“Sometimes you don’t want to see it, even when you want to just text with friends or look at pictures that your family posted or whatever.
“You get to see pictures that maybe you don’t want to see and then you read them and it might give you a bit of thinking that you should not think about.
“We’re professionals and we get paid for that as well, to be professional on that part as well, not only on the pitch.”
