Nicolas Pépé

[jayramfootball]

Reality is Gervinho was more productive than this guy. Not trolling here, just a fact.

You claim Amn should play wide on the right in the Amn thread, yet the lad can hardly kick a ball atm his confidence is that low,
Now even if Pepe only ever is known as a dead ball specialist at Arsenal he will have done more than Gervinho who got lost and was never seen again he went so far down a blind alley

There's really no doubt that so far what we've seen from Pepe would place him as a less productive and inferior player to Gervinho. Or Iwobi... And miles behind Walcott and Chamberlain.
Looks a downgrade even on Iwobi for a record fee.

[Phil71]

Not looking like a £70m+ player at the moment. In fact it would take a dramatic transformation for him to get anywhere near it.

I'm thinking we should have spent the money on a high quality centre half.

[Salibatelli]

Gervinho was woeful, so was Walcott. What sums up AW in his latter years for me is that we went and bought Gervinho (of course he was cheap which was always an important consideration for Wenger) when Hazard was at the same club and should have been the one we went after, likewise with Walcott and Bale.

Pepe has only been here for a short period, people gave Walcott 10 years and Gervinho countless years, I think it's unfair to judge Pepe yet, especially given he's playing under a manager where pretty much every player isn't being utilised well. Pepe played two very good games and was then dropped because for some odd reason the manager couldn't accommodate Pepe and Ozil in the same team, that's mismanagement of the highest order.

I'm willing to give him a while longer to see how he gets on, it took Pires a season to get into his stride.

[Rockape]

To be fair to Theo, he wasn't woeful.....he was just one dimensional. He did certain things extremely well and certain things extremely badly. He did score some important goals for us along the way.

[Ach]

Theo was quality and a legend at the club. 100+ goals mainly from right wing during cancer years whilst being hit by injury is an incredible feat

Ox was shit.

Gervinho lol

[swipe right]

Theo helped RVP to his best ever season.

[Salibatelli]

Walcott was IMO one of the most overrated footballers ever, all he had was pace, no skill, no finesse just pace, managed 10 years at this club which is a shocker IMO, since he's been at Everton has done nothing, so it just shows his level.

Couldn't have been happier when he finally left and we offloaded him to Everton whose fans must be as frustrated with him as we were.

Pepe has potential IMO, he's got talent, he's not just a one trick pony, he does need time to adapt to the PL though, that much is clear, oh and new manager.

[Salibatelli]

Theo helped RVP to his best ever season.

RVP didn't need Walcott, he had enough talent by himself, a brilliant individual player.

[Nuggets]

Walnut was shite, I just hope Pepe starts shaping up sooner than later.

[Nuggets]

Walcott was IMO one of the most overrated footballers ever, all he had was pace, no skill, no finesse just pace, managed 10 years at this club which is a shocker IMO, since he's been at Everton has done nothing, so it just shows his level.

Couldn't have been happier when he finally left and we offloaded him to Everton whose fans must be as frustrated with him as we were.

Pepe has potential IMO, he's got talent, he's not just a one trick pony, he does need time to adapt to the PL though, that much is clear, oh and new manager.

Walnut was a legend in his own head.

[ag6789]

Walcott scored 110 goals for us. He was injury prone like many others during his time. Rosicky, Diaby, Ox, Wilshere...VanPersie to name a few.

[swipe right]

Theo was doing well on the right until John Terry turned his head and talked him into trying his hand at CF. He never recovered from that stupidity.

[Power n Glory]

Theo was doing well on the right until John Terry turned his head and talked him into trying his hand at CF. He never recovered from that stupidity.

Theo should have been moved in a CF role earlier in his career. If he's not scoring goals or whipping in a cross for the assist, he's not providing that much. He's not a dribbler, he's not a high touch player and does most of his damage with his off the ball runs and finishing off a move. It's like when we play Aubameyang on the wing but a less clinical version. Plus he was always coming in on goal on his weaker foot where most goal scoring wingers play so they can cut inside to finish.

I don't think Theo's body could take the constant knocks as a winger. He had that problem with his shoulders dislocating after a hard fall and then he picked up a nasty ACL injury. But either way, some respect needs to be put on his name. If a player like Iwobi or even Pepe could add the sort of goal numbers Theo was scoring, we'd have a complete winger.

[The Break Water]

Has some decent corners, but in actual open football looks very erratic and rushed, hence why he is not scoring from open play or even coming close. BUT this manager is an absolute joke, and everyone looks bad this season, I want to see Pepe under another manager.

[ag6789]

Yes, a good manager would work w/him and calm him down. But Unia probably jib-jabs in Spanish, and Pepe, being all ears for 2 mins, rises up, says.. whatever.. under his breath.. trudges off.