Nicolas Pepe, who joined Arsenal from Lille in 2019 for a record-breaking fee, is now entering the final year of his contract with the club.
Despite being given ample opportunities by manager Mikel Arteta, the Ivorian winger has failed to live up to expectations and Arsenal decided to loan him out to Nice for the previous season.
Unfortunately, Pepe’s performance did not significantly improve during his loan spell, leading Arsenal to actively seek a buyer for the player.
According to Aksam, his agent has reportedly offered him to Turkish side Fenerbahce, hoping they would be willing to give him another opportunity to showcase his abilities.
Arsenal would be open to striking a favourable deal with Fenerbahce for Pepe, as they look to offload the player and potentially recoup some of their investment.
However, it remains uncertain whether Fenerbahce will pursue the signing of Pepe and add him to their squad for the upcoming season.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Pepe has become a liability for us in the last few seasons and he is simply not good enough to wear our shirt.
The ex-Lille man deceived us that he could get better for so long, but it is now obvious that he is not a player we can bank on, so the earlier he leaves, the better it will be for us as we look to maintain the high standards we set ourselves.
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We paid 72 million on him.
Not his fault.
Who can forget his goal against Wolves last season.
All the best Pepe
Is he really that bad, is it the 72m that is a problem. i can recall a few better signings like Mustafi, Sokratis, Gervinho, Dennis suarez, willian, and currently Fabio Viera. Pundits can write off someones career!!!
Yes he really IS that bad! Well you did ask, though cant think why, as it ought to be obvious.
Hope’s the lad finds a place he can truly calls home, he has dealt harshly by armchair managers and pundits alike.
‘The ex-Lille man deceived us that he could get better for so long’
Am not known for my best practices in English nor for excellent choices of words, but how on earth did Pepe deceived us ?
Good question!!
Not personally at all Gunsmoke did Pepe deceive
But the powers that were then spent a club record on him. They cocked up
70 mil was too much. People quickly and conveniently forget his first season for us. His goal tally and assists were excellent. He scored some very important goals than get ignored. It went wrong for him at Arsenal because he was promising for us. He fell off a cliff. There is an extremely talented player in there but obviously not for us. We again are going to get peanuts to nothing for another player.
Hope he leaves and he’s a flop but AdMartin calls Diaby one of the best wingers in Europe and hopes we sign him ,good one .
Bloody hell talk about assassination of a player!
I wonder who is the next player in line for the “special assassination” treatment after our dearly unbeloved Pepe departs. Lightweight, Fabio Vieira?
Not the players fault the club paid well over the odds, just as it wasn’t other players fault when the club gave grotesque salary contracts, or when the club allowed contracts to run down and give the player all the power in negotiations.
As for deceiving us, wrong word used in my opinion.
Disappointing us would have been more appropriate, especially for the Kronkies who have seen £72,000,000 disappear, while Pepe will have to start rebuilding his career.
I suggest all parties move on.
Harsh comments on a player who has shown professionalism despite the treatment on him by various management. Hes not responsible for the high transfer fee, emery fancied Nkuku and Zaha but he got him. His style of play and strengths were different to what the team required under Arteta but he tried his best. I prefer to remember his good moments for the team when he was the first guy to have a successful dribble against Van Dijk in 50 games…turned the game around against wolves when he came on and when he got an assist in the fa cup win. For those who are only interested in numbers, might be interesting to note that Pepe direct goals involvement (goals + assists) per min played in 20/21 is better than martinelli in 22/23. Deceiving indeed.
People quickly forget!!!!!
Ken Yes I realsie we all SHOULD move .
But in reality land fans have long momories and I cannot blame any fan for not forgetting the huge and silly waste of money we – actually Sanllehi, of course- made.
Hard to forget that £70 odd mill was stupidly and, in SANLLEHIS CASE ALSO FRAUDULENTLY, thrown away on a total dud.
A dud however that even now some of our totally out of touch fans, STILL think can make the grade. AS IF!!
I think the deceiving us line has been taken in the wrong way – as I read it, the author was saying his performances led us to believe Pepe showed enough promise to keep us interested, however he never really got going (not that the player somehow took steps to deceive us into signing him)
Anyway, had Pepe been signed for 20-30m (something more ‘normal’) he would still be called a flop – that tells you everything. His numbers were OK, but his performances weren’t – I take no pleasure in that, I always wanted him to do well, but that’s the reality. It was our fault for not doing our homework before buying. I hope his next move is more prosperous for him.
His name is pepe!! Stop this name calling of your players JA. It’s not his fault that Arteta didn’t trust him!
Getting a bit pathetic now, the continuous attacks on Pepe especially in the article titles!
Really pathetic!! and we complain arsenal can’t sell players at good prices. How can we when we the fans do not even value them?
I think Admin Martin like a lot of pundits are bias and forget their duty in their proffesions which is to be neutral. Sounds like a personal vendetta & propaganda campaign aimed at Pepe.
Pepe was never as bad as some ppl make him out to be.
i so much love that guy and i hate it when some folk talk about him in a bad manner, calling him FLOP hell no.
You” love that guy? Meaning Pepe of course. ONE QUESTION: WHY? What is there to love about a hugely expensive player who has flopped and cost our club a huge loss?
Do you “LOVE” our club as much as you “love Pepe? Because it strongly seems you me that you cannot possibly do so!