A gif of that miss anyone?
Nicolas Pépé
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I seem to recall that there were a number of people on here raving about him being top class. No chance the numbers he put up in France would translate.
1v1, sure, really good. As a player in a team trying to break down a balanced defence? No chance.
Unlike Salah, he is not consistent in his technique, nor does he have that extreme acceleration or low gravity that makes him truly dangerous. When the opposition gets close or not selling themselves, he struggles.
1v1, sure, really good. As a player in a team trying to break down a balanced defence? No chance.
Unlike Salah, he is not consistent in his technique, nor does he have that extreme acceleration or low gravity that makes him truly dangerous. When the opposition gets close or not selling themselves, he struggles.
He is a huge dissapointment in England so far.
all the times I watch him, he's getting the ball in the right edge of the box and just crossing a terrible ball out of bounds. hopefully he improves because this country can be terrible for an underperforming foreigner
I was on the caf the day Arsenal announced him. It was absolute carnage on here.
He's a button masher. Not even he knows what's going to happen.
that's actually a great description of his game so far
Button masher, bloody love that
Is he still too selfish?
Rashford is better than Pepe. Don't wanna hear otherwise
He will be alright, I’ve seen enough of him to think there’s a player in there.
Give it a year and everyone will rate him I reckon.
Give it a year and everyone will rate him I reckon.
Miss aside, I thought he was probably Arsenal's best outfield player yesterday. I'm not sure that's saying much, though. I think he'll come good.
Wanted us to sign him but so far he's been terrible. Has pace and seems a good dribbler but end product is disastrous. Maybe with time he'll come good but with the price they got him for they kinda need him to start doing something.
Has been having a slow start but shows the potential to be a top player . Only martial seems better than him on our team in attack
His end product is so shocking that he reminds me of Fred every time I watch him play. Watch him for 3-4 seconds and he'll lose the ball one way or the other.
Still early for any conclusions though.
Still early for any conclusions though.
Don't rate him at all.
Biggest waste of 80m ever.
Biggest waste of 80m ever.
He has a ridiculous repertoire of tricks - It is way too early to judge this guy and fairly naïve to do so. He should have scored a couple of goals against Sheffield United but he's Arsenal's top chance creator this season by a mile.
By Christmas I expect him to be firing and some of these comments will need to be retracted.
By Christmas I expect him to be firing and some of these comments will need to be retracted.
So far he has been their new Gervinho.
There was a lot of hype around him during the summer after he has a really good season, but it was telling that no team was willing to bite despite his agent talking about teams like Liverpool, Real Madrid and us interested in him.
Arsenal eventually bit, paid a hefty fee and he looks nowhere near justifying the hype around him and the fee. He may come good but I don't think he will be worth the fee Arsenal paid for him. The biggest winner out of all this was his agent and Lille.
Arsenal eventually bit, paid a hefty fee and he looks nowhere near justifying the hype around him and the fee. He may come good but I don't think he will be worth the fee Arsenal paid for him. The biggest winner out of all this was his agent and Lille.
Rashford has a goals per game record comparable to Bendtner.
Pepe's is worse in the EPL. His goal record in France is irrelevant and mostly from the penalty spot meaning he is ONLY effective from 9 yards out with no one blocking his way.
So winger has goals per game comparable to CF, good enough record.
On the other hand, Rashford who played most of his career as winger has better mins per goal record than Bergkamp in PL.
I said this to an Arsenal fan at work. In Gervinho best season at Lille, his stats were the same as Pepe and less Penalties. He also had more international appearances at the same age and has won best african player in ligue 1 more times than Pepe. Pepe has been taken to African Nations as an unused sub and kept out by Zaha and an Orlando Pirates attacker. £70 million though
From what I have seen - Nicolas Pepe is a far better player than Gervinho.
Pepe didn't set his price tag - I fear all of this criticism will come back to bite
Just going off his key passes per 90 in the PL he has 1.8 per game, which is exactly the same as Saka, Nelson, Torriera and Wilock. When you factor in that he takes all the set-pieces that stat becomes even less impressive.
for xA its
1. Maitland-Niles 1.31
2. Pepe 1.27
3. Chambers 1.25
4. Saka 0.98
5. Kolasinac 0.95
The PL do have him top of big chances created with 3, ahead of Maitland-Niles, Saka, Auba and Sokratis on 2. Only Saka is really comparable there in terms of position and he's played about two thirds of the minutes as Pepe has.
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That's quite a statement to make. Pretty sure he's scored some long range efforts
It's too early to judge him appropriately, I'd give him until the end of the season and the new 2020 season to judge him fairly. It's hard to gauge his impact especially if Arsenal overpaid because he didn't have any european exposure in the UCL. We have seen Lindlelof drastically improve his game in the second season, the only worrying aspect about Pepe is his poor finishing in that respect he comes across as a more astute version of Iwobi but time will tell his influence.Bendnter played most of his games on the wing, I think both would have prefered to play centrally. Bergkamp typically played deeper and put up crazy assist numbers.
£70m for the new Bendtner! Crap.
No, he played almost all his games as CF.
I've had Pepe in my fantasy team since week 1. I have finally given up on him and traded him this week so I now fully expect him to start scoring...
He has been horrible so far.
I actually think his overall play has been pretty good but in front of goal has been a deer in the headlights.
describe exactly how he is better
think he has been bang poor so far
I really am shocked to see how many people on here still rate the guy. He has been dreadful since coming here. Decision making in the final 3rd makes Traore looks good. Considering the amount they paid for him, he should hit the ground running.
Don't. He isn't very good.
Don't blow £70m on a penalty merchant from a second rate league. A valuable lesson for all clubs.
Don't speak too soon..I was on the caf the day Arsenal announced him. It was absolute carnage on here.
Some of the Caf' were talking about how crap a signing Fabinho was for Liverpool after a few months and laughing at the meltdown here.