Arsenal defender Shkodran Mustafi dismissed doubts about his commitment after a summer full of talk over a move to Inter Milan.

Mustafi scored in Saturday's derby win over Tottenham and snapped back at the transfer chat.

"But I'm here, I'm standing in front of you in an Arsenal shirt," said Mustafi. “What happens in the changing room is the real thing.

“As always, 'Arsenal is dead, Arsenal isn't coming back.' It's always the same. But it's about what the team is thinking and ­feeling.

“We keep saying we always are alive, we always believe in ourselves, we always try to give everything on the pitch.

“Obviously, when it comes to games like this you have to show character. We did it and you have to give the team credit.

“So there's no point talking now about what was said before and what the people were thinking and who was the better team.. At the end of the game you can see if you did your job or you didn't, and I think we did our job.

“If you want to judge a player, it's not about what he's done in the last three weeks. If you look at what Mesut achieved, you have to give him credit.

“It's sometimes stupid to say, 'He's not good enough, he's not this or that'. You have to see what he's done in his career and respect that."