It's rare that a £72 million signing can go four months without starting a Premier League match for a club without anyone seeming to notice.
But that has been the case for Nicolas Pepe whose last outing from the off in a league game came during the 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace all the way back in October.
With the lack of game time, and the likes of Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, Emile Smith Rowe and even Eddie Nketiah ahead of him in the pecking order, it seemed his Arsenal career could be over when stories linking him with a move away emerged on January transfer deadline day.
