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Everyone by now surely knows what this guy's about? Speed, skill, athleticism, great movement, great finishing, superb left foot. Would be a phenomenal signing.

He's been linked with Bayern, PSG, Inter, Liverpool and United all summer, but has said he wanted time to think over things and has obviously been away at the AFCON.

Bayern amd Liverpool have distanced themselves from him, but lots believe it's just a tactic to put others off, especially in Liverpool's case.

In case you don't know what he's about:

I hope we're in the running.

Over the next week we'll find out the derisory payment structure and bonuses we've offered, then cokcamamie rumours about including players in our offer. Then it will come out that he only wants a CL club. Then liverpool will sign him

I don't rate him that high either. Over valued like zaha

If we want him as a marquee signing we have a decent chance. Funnily enough Zaha is the more impressive one in the Ivory Coast team though. Pepe looks more like a good version of Walcott in that team

So we slow down deals for weeks so we save 3-4 mil and risk loosing the target to our rivals, we don’t have 3 mil extra to buy the left back we want, we can’t buy before we sell...and then we go out and bid 80 mil for Pepe. You gotta love this club man.

Hope we get him. Would be a statement signing to lift the gloom

HomeSteak wrote:

So we slow down deals for weeks so we save 3-4 mil and risk loosing the target to our rivals, we don’t have 3 mil extra to buy the left back we want, we can’t buy before we sell...and then we go out and bid 80 mil for Pepe. You gotta love this club man.

or maybe you shouldn't believe every bullshit story (or 280 characters) that's peddled out there about how much arsenal have to spend, etc.

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Hope we get him. Would be a statement signing to lift the gloom

That's my thinking too.
The club had to react to the body blows of the Zaha, Saliba and Kos affairs.
This bid, if true, would be them realising then premium cost a Europa club has to pay for a CL-level player.
Hopefully Edu's first act of kicking cluelessness out of the window.

Ornstein has declared this as trash.

Next.

Ornstein just had to... barely lasted 20mins

Yep, didn't last long. 😆

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Arsenal shutting it down so quickly is an attempt to manage supporter's expectations. It's better than letting fans think it's possible I suppose.

Was about to type the same question again. What gives people the confidence to believe these links and create these threads? A 70 million defender at an aimless club when just 6 months ago we were supposedly broke.

arsedoc md wrote:

Was about to type the same question again.  What gives people the confidence to believe these links and create these threads?  A 70 million defender at an aimless club when just 6 months ago we were supposedly broke.

What gives people the confidence to call this guy a defender? 

goodness gracious its open season. Everyone is taking the piss out of our club.

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
arsedoc md wrote:

Was about to type the same question again.  What gives people the confidence to believe these links and create these threads?  A 70 million defender at an aimless club when just 6 months ago we were supposedly broke.

What gives people the confidence to call this guy a defender? 

Lol, once I read that this player was highly rated early in the transfer window ,I never even looked him up. 

That no sources having Bert from sesame street lookalike Ornstein can go fuck himself. I'm staying put on this train

Pepe 2019

He was right about Saliba and many others so i'm more inclined to believe his train's timetable as it has a track record.

Honestly, this is the kind of guy we should sign. Funny I wrote we should sign this guy and not Zaha about an hour before this rumor broke. I’m all for this. Sell half the squad

Pep, where are there eggplant emojis?

jones wrote:

That no sources having Bert from sesame street lookalike Ornstein can go fuck himself. I'm staying put on this train

Pepe 2019

😆

Hope we sign Pepe.

See that he’s still heavily linked with Bayern and Liverpool.

is he really that good? ive watched a few compilations, he looks okay, but 80M? i mean i know every decent player (except arsenal players) goes for 50M these days, but still, looks fairly underwhelming

mdgoonah41 wrote:

is he really that good? ive watched a few compilations, he looks okay, but 80M? i mean i know every decent player (except arsenal players) goes for 50M these days, but still, looks fairly underwhelming

Yeah, his age and statistical profile is undeniable but whenever you actually see him play, you can't help but feel that he's kind of a bit shit actually. Very reminiscent of Leon Bailey this time last year.

I have to agree. I don’t think he’d maintain anywhere near those numbers here either. But who knows.

He has an awkward style that can deceive you if you haven't seen lots of him. I thought the same when I watched just a few short compilations. He's a seriously good player. Potentially terrifyingly good.

Smokescreen for the guy we really want - ol' Wilf Zaha.

If you have the money for Wilf, you should always go this guy. Hopefully, our bankers tell Raul that.

Of course go for this guy but he already has cl football at his current club plus cl teams interested in him unlike wilf.

I think there's a reason top clubs are baulking at the fee. He's had 1 good season in ligue at 24 years of age. Bayern are heavily in the market for a winger, and despite pepe being constantly linked with them they haven't made a move.

Can't believe there is anything in this really the figures are crazy and don't seem credible for us.

Don't believe this rumour at all.

I would obviously like us to sign Pepe and think he has way more upside, but I just really want Zaha. Always have.

Shady wrote:

Don't believe this rumour at all.

Thats the feeling I'am getting. Hollow use of our club in name to drum interest, but I hope I'm being irrational.

Lille really torpedoed the bids credibility when they invoked arsenals name.

Does him being linked with Arsenal and Napoli in recent days suggest that the big clubs aren't interested or that Lille are just trying to scare bigger clubs into action?

Lille want their money. They need to make space for the next crop of talented kids to be groomed and auctioned off.

He's the only player I'd be happy to see us spend our entire budget on. Sadly our entire budget isn't enough to get him.