Random overpriced player is so unfair. By many metric he was a top signing for us. Many top clubs were chasing him.
He failed here by one way or another, it happens but let's not discredit our great effort to land him in the first place
Bayern were interested in Pepe but not at the £80m price point. They felt he was too raw and they were right.
I wonder if Pepe would have fared better coming into this side. He has flaws in his game that are hard to overlook, but also feels very much like wrong place wrong time for him.
goon Competing with Saka sharply limited Pépé's opportunities then and would again now, but you'd hope Arteta learns to rotate more generously now his own job's far more secure.
He wasn't able to adapt tactically to what Arteta wanted. And too often defensively switched off
he's as good as partey. that should be taken as a compliment tbh.
Similar passing accuracy should be paired with the fact that Partey plays more difficult passes.
QuincyAbeyie and a higher volume, I'd wager, considering how ball dominant we are
But Rice has worse teammates
His reading of the game and interceptions are at an elite level. Here's hoping playing with better players and a more progressive manager introduces some flair to his passing game which at the moment is pretty vanilla.
He’s fine. You don’t need every player to be absolute top drawer with their passing. He’s good at what he needs to be good at
Vanilla... Rice Rice Baby.
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What’s the latest with this? Are we still negotiating terms with West Ham?
In sales they say time kills deals….I hope we don’t fuck this up still
latest update I saw was that final paperwork is almost done, but the arsenal media is also taking time to put together a real whizzbang reveal because it's a historic deal on a number of levels
Arse.com are notoriously slow
Also some of the players are only just returning from holiday now. Havertz was an exception because Chelsea needed it sorted by 30 June and even then we had to gate crash Kepa’s wedding to get the media stuff done 😂
steinberg reporting that we've ironed out the installments and fee structure. can't be too long before he's holding the shirt. pumped for this one. 😃
Gazza M he's already done the photoshoot apparently? Saw from twitter itks and that we are doing a special unveiling for our biggest ever signing in club history.
Quite unreal really to be an Arsenal fan atm
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