{"id":1099130,"date":"2019-08-01T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1099130"},"modified":"2019-08-01T16:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:38:48","slug":"nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Pepe completes Arsenal move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arsenal have announced the signing of Ivorian winger Nicolas Pepe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pepe, 24, has signed a five-year deal at the Emirates after Lille and Arsenal agreed a record fee of approximately \u00a370 million to be paid in instalments to fit Arsenal&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n<h2>Arsenal get their winger: 5 things to know&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was well documented that the Gunners were interested in signing a winger this summer.<\/li>\n<li>Pepe&#8217;s international team-mate Wilfried Zaha became their no. 1 target after a stunning performance at the Emirates in April.<\/li>\n<li>However, his \u00a370 million price-tag deterred the Arsenal hierarchy.<\/li>\n<li>Pepe impressed in Ligue 1 last season, scoring 22 and assisting 11.<\/li>\n<li>He had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/12962\/11770808\/nicolas-pepe-napoli-agree-deal-with-lille-to-sign-ivory-coast-winger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> agreed to join Napoli before Arsenal swooped in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7330203-it-s-easy-to-get-backwards-but-liverpool-s-dependence-on-their-front-three-isn-t-a-weakness<\/p>\n<p>Pepe will join William Saliba, Dani Ceballos and Gabriel Martinelli as Arsenal&#8217;s fourth signing this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Ivorian&#8217;s departure has been imminent for a while now. Lille chairman Gerard Lopez said back in April that it was &#8216;certain&#8217; Pepe would leave as he was &#8216;now in a price range they cannot afford&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>There is no doubting that Pepe will become an important member of the Arsenal side, as the Gunners were often accused of lacking pace and dynamism during a 2018\/19 campaign which saw them miss out on the Champions League by the skin of their teeth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How will Unai Emery setup Arsenal? | Squawka Tactics\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LgL7-JR-P8Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/sqwk.at\/Squawka-Sub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite having a reported budget of just \u00a345 million this summer, this deal has taken their spending to over \u00a3100 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nicolas is a highly-rated and talented winger who was wanted by many of the top teams in Europe,&#8221; Unai Emery told the club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/nicolas-pepe-becomes-record-signing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Signing a top-class winger has been one of our key objectives in this transfer window and I&#8217;m delighted he&#8217;s joining.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will add pace, power and creativity, with the aim of bringing more goals to our team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script>(function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src='https:\/\/embed.playbuzz.com\/sdk.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','playbuzz-sdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"playbuzz\" data-id=\"66c974de-b77b-4864-9922-f0029ea5359e\" data-show-info=\"false\" data-show-share=\"false\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal have announced the signing of Ivorian winger Nicolas Pepe. Pepe, 24, has signed a five-year deal at the Emirates after Lille and Arsenal agreed a record fee of approximately \u00a370 million to be paid in instalments to fit Arsenal&#8217;s budget. Arsenal get their winger: 5 things to know&#8230; It was well documented that the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":1080017,"parent":0,"menu_order":5853,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1099130","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"external_featured_image_url":"","hide_featured_image_pattern":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nicolas Pepe completes Arsenal move | Squawka | EN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nicolas Pepe completes Arsenal move\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Arsenal have announced the signing of Ivorian winger Nicolas Pepe. Pepe, 24, has signed a five-year deal at the Emirates after Lille and Arsenal agreed a record fee of approximately \u00a370 million to be paid in instalments to fit Arsenal&#8217;s budget. Arsenal get their winger: 5 things to know&#8230; It was well documented that the...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Squawka | EN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SquawkaFootballNews\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-08-01T15:38:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/03\/23131047\/GettyImages-1067221484.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"671\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@squawka\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ollie Thomas\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/ac24cd244ef738c0d606b1223b06b26b\"},\"headline\":\"Nicolas Pepe completes Arsenal move\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-08-01T15:33:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-08-01T15:38:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/\"},\"wordCount\":317,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/03\/23131047\/GettyImages-1067221484.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/\",\"name\":\"Nicolas Pepe completes Arsenal move | Squawka | EN\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/03\/23131047\/GettyImages-1067221484.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-08-01T15:33:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-08-01T15:38:48+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/03\/23131047\/GettyImages-1067221484.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/03\/23131047\/GettyImages-1067221484.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":671},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Squawka\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Nicolas Pepe completes Arsenal move\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Squawka | EN\",\"description\":\"Football News, Stats, and More...\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/ac24cd244ef738c0d606b1223b06b26b\",\"name\":\"Ollie Thomas\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/598370f07bc2ad600fcd7787579f5ead7ebbaf8f65800be689b7f97203435d49?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/598370f07bc2ad600fcd7787579f5ead7ebbaf8f65800be689b7f97203435d49?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ollie Thomas\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/author\/ollie_thomas\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nicolas Pepe completes Arsenal move | Squawka | EN","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Nicolas Pepe completes Arsenal move","og_description":"Arsenal have announced the signing of Ivorian winger Nicolas Pepe. Pepe, 24, has signed a five-year deal at the Emirates after Lille and Arsenal agreed a record fee of approximately \u00a370 million to be paid in instalments to fit Arsenal&#8217;s budget. Arsenal get their winger: 5 things to know&#8230; It was well documented that the...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/","og_site_name":"Squawka | EN","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SquawkaFootballNews\/","article_modified_time":"2019-08-01T15:38:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":671,"url":"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/03\/23131047\/GettyImages-1067221484.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@squawka","twitter_misc":{"Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/"},"author":{"name":"Ollie Thomas","@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/ac24cd244ef738c0d606b1223b06b26b"},"headline":"Nicolas Pepe completes Arsenal move","datePublished":"2019-08-01T15:33:00+00:00","dateModified":"2019-08-01T15:38:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/"},"wordCount":317,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/03\/23131047\/GettyImages-1067221484.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/","url":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/","name":"Nicolas Pepe completes Arsenal move | Squawka | EN","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/03\/23131047\/GettyImages-1067221484.jpg","datePublished":"2019-08-01T15:33:00+00:00","dateModified":"2019-08-01T15:38:48+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/03\/23131047\/GettyImages-1067221484.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/03\/23131047\/GettyImages-1067221484.jpg","width":1024,"height":671},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/nicolas-pepe-completes-arsenal-move\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Squawka","item":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Nicolas Pepe completes Arsenal move"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/","name":"Squawka | EN","description":"Football News, Stats, and More...","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/ac24cd244ef738c0d606b1223b06b26b","name":"Ollie Thomas","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/598370f07bc2ad600fcd7787579f5ead7ebbaf8f65800be689b7f97203435d49?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/598370f07bc2ad600fcd7787579f5ead7ebbaf8f65800be689b7f97203435d49?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ollie Thomas"},"url":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/author\/ollie_thomas\/"}]}},"yoast_title":"","yoast_description":"","yoast_keyword":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1099130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1099130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1080017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099130"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=1099130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}