Arsenal made Nicolas Pepe their record signing when he arrived from Lille for a whopping £72 million in 2019.
Even after the arrivals of the transformative Oleksandr Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus from Manchester City in the summer, Pepe's fee is still the most Arsenal have shelled out for one player. And his move to Arsenal is unlikely to go how all parties would have hoped ahead of the expiration of his contract at the end of next season.
Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke faces seeing a record move from his club returning nothing or very little with the player able to negotiate a free transfer with an overseas club as soon as January. Pepe joined Nice in August as the player returned to France, where he was born and spent his entire career before leaving for London, on loan.
