Nicolas Pepe’s chances of finding a new club suffered a setback when his proposed move to an unnamed Saudi Arabian club fell through.
Since joining Arsenal as their record signing, Pepe’s performances have been disappointing, and his loan spell at Nice in the previous season did not improve his prospects of securing a new club during this transfer window.
While Saudi Arabian clubs were targeting European talents, one of them expressed interest in adding Pepe to their squad, giving Arsenal hope of offloading one of their unwanted high-earning players.
However, CBS Sports now reports that the deal, which could have earned Pepe 5 million euros per season net, has collapsed, dealing a significant blow to both the Gunners and the player. Now, Pepe and Arsenal will need to find a new destination for the Ivorian winger before the start of the next season.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Pepe has been one of our worst signings ever and now we are stuck with him as no one is prepared to give him a chance.
The attacker will also be eager to end his nightmarish spell in London finally. There is enough time and we hope a new suitor emerges for his signature soon.
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To say he’s our worst ever signing is way off the mark. There’s been many, many worse signings in my years of following The Arsenal.
Hopefully he finds a club, he’s not a bad player, he just doesn’t suit the way Arteta wants the team to play.
👍 HD, a fair assessment of Nicholas Pepe. The blame for Pepe’s extortionate purchase should be placed where it belongs, at the feet of Raul Sanheili.
As you rightly put it Pepe, like Tierney doesn’t suit Arteta’s system of play; however it is difficult to understand why both are neglected as impact/back up players.
In the case of Tierney some unfortunate injuries just when it was critical for him to gel with the team. Then along comes Zinchenko and sets the world alight. How it goes sometimes.
I don’t think he’s the worst player we’ve ever signed – far from it – but given the transfer fee (and his wages are reportedly very high), he might be our worst ever signing, certainly one of them. We really didn’t get much out of him for what we paid. I don’t think that’s entirely his fault, but it is what it is
I can’t just understand at times when some of our fans keep doing this to our players, it is the main reason we will not get good money for our players. His record is not one of the worst but maybe not what we mostly want to get from such an expensive player.
I realized why Liverpool will manage to sell some of their unknown players for good money and Arsenal won’t get anything reasonable. We do our players more …….. than we support at times.
👍 Often the disparaging comments display ignorance. Just because a player doesn’t suit the system at one club, doesn’t mean they can’t be a success elsewhere.
I don’t think anything said by our fans makes a lot of difference – more so his general reputation outside the club.
For the amount of money we have paid.. HE IS THE WORST SIGNING FOR ARSENAL. Too laidback, slow on his feet and footballing brain but has a wicked left foot. Too bad couldnt cut it in the EPL. Should have signed for a farmer’s league like Italy or Dutch.
The thing is, he did cut it in his first season. His numbers were excellent!!!!!!