Pepe said he was subjected to a lot of flak for his performance and was even termed the \"biggest flop in the history of the Premier League\".<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"It was almost harassment. I don't look at social media much, but if my brother told me 'this is what they said about you', it would affect me unconsciously,\u201d he said in an interview with L\u2019Equipe. \"It also came from the media or from certain members of the club. They don't realise that it can affect the mental state, and the family and it affects performance. The only people who have always supported me are the Arsenal fans.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"At Arsenal, I suffered a kind of trauma, as if my passion had been ripped away from me, I had a disgust for football. I doubted myself to the point that I thought about quitting everything.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"I wondered how they could have been so relentless in their attacks on me. They even called me the biggest flop in the history of the Premier League. But I refused to mope,\" he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
After spending the previous season on loan at Turkish team Trabzonspor, the 29-year-old is presently a free agent and claims that Arsenal made it tough for him to leave the club. \"I didn\u2019t care about the money. At Nice, I sat on 25 per cent of my salary. I just wanted to play. I would have liked to terminate earlier in the summer but Arsenal didn\u2019t want to. They said: \u2018We bought you for \u20ac80m (\u00a372m), we can\u2019t\u2019.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"I wondered how they could have been so relentless in their attacks on me. They even called me the biggest flop in the history of the Premier League. But I refused to mope,\" he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n