Arsenal are reportedly willing to cash-in on winger Nicolas Pepe when the January transfer window comes around.
The Gunners made a considerable, club-record investment in Pepe in order to sign him from Lille. That money could probably have been better spent elsewhere.
While there have been flashes of quality from the Ivorian, he has struggled to produce on a consistent basis for Arsenal. There are now suggestions they’d be prepared to see the back of him.
According to Todo Fichajes, Arsenal will listen to offers for Pepe when the January transfer window opens.
There is no suggestion of what Arsenal would demand in exchange for him, but you imagine they will be recording a sizeable loss on their original investment if he were to depart.
It is strange to see a story like this come out just a matter of days after the summer transfer window closed. We’ll have to wait and see if there’s any truth to the claims.
Michael Alvarado, where is your evidence of such a story. Don’t you know that Pepe scored the most goals in the back end of the last season for Arsenal. You anti arsenal writers must confirm your sources of information to substantiate your claims.
Why can’t we believe that Arteta is the on e killing all these talents? how can every single player in a team have a problem. Arteta is the onr rendering them less productive with his system of play
Common sense, he wont get a job anywhere after that destruction!
Kroenke has no clue of football, far from it as he is. Bottom table after losers pre season were not enough for him to fire Arteta & Edu.
We’ll be in relegation til January window ..Would that bé enough?
Pepe is not worth 70 million. That Arsenal grossly overpaid for him is not his fault.
Nicolas Pepe was Arsenal’s best winger (10 goals, 1 assist in 1,611 Premier League minutes), outscoring the golden boy, Bukayo Saka (5 goals and 4 assists in 2,561 Premier League minutes) and Willian (0 goals and 5 assists in 1,409 Premier League minutes). Pepe also outperformed both players in the Europa League (6 goals, 4 assists).
Arsenal may well be willing to cash in on him, but if this ‘willingness’ goes anything like the last few senior players deals, it will be a train wreck.
Expect this… Pepe won’t play all season, then Arsenal will demand 40 million. No one will pay that price for a player that his coaches rate so poorly that he can’t get into a mid-table team ahead of other wingers who are scoring half what he did. Arteta will make a public statement, like the one he made about Mesut Ozil; claiming Pepe is being left out for ‘football reasons.’ He will be lying, but pundits will swallow his bologna rather than admit the team is really this bad. Pepe will remain silent because he is a pro and if he speaks out, he will get labeled a trouble maker.
Arsenal will be forced to keep Pepe in January, then try to sell him in the summer. After a year of languishing without game time, his transfer value will be next to nothing. He will go on loan to Ligue 1, play well, but the team won’t agree to meet Arsenal’s ridiculous price because they know the player is not wanted and will not play.
Pepe is under contract until 2024, so in the winter window in 2023/24, Arsenal will allow him to leave to play elsewhere for free after buying out his contract.
You guys 4get that man propose, God disposes. In the other way round, Arteta may not survive December. Then the next coach comes in & what happens?
Common sense, he wont get a job anywhere after that destruction!
Kroenke has no clue of football, far from it as he is. Bottom table after losers pre season were not enough for him to fire Arteta & Edu.
We’ll be in relegation til January window ..Would that bé enough?