# Arsenal Player on Being Benched and Staying Professional

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120586319160381442
- Source account: [@DAZN_ES](https://x.com/DAZN_ES)
- Source language: Spanish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:02
- Published: 2026-11-11
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BO7qEo3RHFBj/en/arsenal-player-on-being-benched-and-staying-professional
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BO7qEo3RHFBj/es/un-jugador-del-arsenal-habla-de-afrontar-la-suplencia.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BO7qEo3RHFBj/en/arsenal-player-on-being-benched-and-staying-professional) At Arsenal, you're a hugely important player, then you see the starting lineup and you're not in it.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BO7qEo3RHFBj/en/arsenal-player-on-being-benched-and-staying-professional?t=4) Then the next week you see the starting lineup, and you're not in it.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BO7qEo3RHFBj/en/arsenal-player-on-being-benched-and-staying-professional?t=7) And you come on in the 80-somethingth minute.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BO7qEo3RHFBj/en/arsenal-player-on-being-benched-and-staying-professional?t=8) Hmm, how do you deal with that? How do you deal with it?

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BO7qEo3RHFBj/en/arsenal-player-on-being-benched-and-staying-professional?t=14) Well, you deal with it by... by keeping a level head, by trying to understand the situation.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BO7qEo3RHFBj/en/arsenal-player-on-being-benched-and-staying-professional?t=21) It's not easy, as I've said many times, but you understand it's also a test for you and it defines you as a footballer and as a professional.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BO7qEo3RHFBj/en/arsenal-player-on-being-benched-and-staying-professional?t=32) I wouldn't... I wouldn't want to be the typical footballer who only is happy or only acts a certain way when things are going his way and when things are going against him, well, pulls faces or doesn't contribute to the team.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BO7qEo3RHFBj/en/arsenal-player-on-being-benched-and-staying-professional?t=44) I've always understood football as something where you have to be, uh, responsible, professional, and respectful. with your teammates and with the profession.

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BO7qEo3RHFBj/en/arsenal-player-on-being-benched-and-staying-professional?t=52) And, well, I take it as a chance every time I'm not starting and have to come on, it's a way to show, uh, what I'm made of and to do it as well as possible.