Nicolas Pepe Archives: 08/2019

Now that the 19/20 Premier League has kicked off, Arsenal fans are waiting to find out if the club’s spending on new players will help them challenge for the league title this season.

August’s football is already over and while it is still relatively early, we’re starting to get a feel for how Unai Emery wants his team to line up and play.

Arsenal were comprehensively beaten 3-1 by Liverpool on Saturday, but the one big positive was the performance of Nicolas Pepe.

Nicolas Pepe successfully dribbled past Virgil van Dijk on Saturday as Arsenal lost to Liverpool, the first player to do that in 50 matches.

When Arsenal were first linked with Nicolas Pepe in November last year, he was rated at just £27m.

Manchester United offered Lille over €90m for Nicolas Pepe before Arsenal signed the winger, according to reports in France.

Earlier this morning I published a post covering David Luiz’s Arsenal initiation song only to find, to my delight, that videos of Dani Ceballos and Nicolas Pepe doing the same were also online.

Lille President Gerard Lopez has revealed that Nicolas Pepe opted to sign for Arsenal because he wanted to move to a club where he could make a big impact.

Arsenal managed to grind out a 1-0 win over Newcastle United in their opening Premier League fixture, despite a number of their potential starters sitting on the bench.

Nacho Monreal has admitted he’s already been impressed with Nicolas Pepe in training, after the winger completed a club-record move to Arsenal this summer.

Arsenal fans went into this transfer window expecting to be depressed even further as Budget FC shopped around Europe looking for Denilson’s clone.

The Premier League is back so that means it’s team news time and there’s quite a lot going on.

A month ago, all of this would have been unbelievable.

Nicolas Pepe’s agent has revealed that five big clubs wanted to sign Pepe but Arsenal convinced him with their ‘ambitious project’.

In this edition of the Daily Cannon Arsenal podcast, Matthew and Anita get VERY excited about Nicolas Pepe, cross fingers for defensive reinforcement (and discuss…

Arsenal fans were left disappointed on Sunday, not because they lost to Barcelona, but because they didn’t get to see Nicolas Pepe in an Arsenal shirt.

As Arsenal announced Nicolas Pepe and the memes featuring him alongside Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette started to surface, I couldn’t help but think to myself ‘we’ve come a long way since the Banter Years of Nicklas Bendtner, Marouane Chamakh and Carlos Vela’.

Arsenal’s £72m deal for Nicolas Pepe has made him the most expensive African of all time.

Four clubs will benefit from Arsenal’s purchase of Nicolas Pepe for a club-record £72m – Lille, Angers, FC Solitaires and Stade Poitevin FC.

Arsenal have signed LOSC Lille winger Nicolas Pepe for a club-record fee on a five-year contract.