Mikel Arteta still has a huge problem to solve with Nicolas Pepe, nearly three years after Roy Keane gave a brutal assessment of Arsenal's record signing.
Pepe remains Arsenal 's record signing, and by some considerable margin after he arrived from Lille for £72million, surpassing the fees paid for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette. But the winger has been a complete flop, and it even linked with a move elsewhere this summer for a fraction of the price.
Arteta spoke about how Pepe had returned from the Africa Cup of Nations as a 'different player' at the start of the year. But he has failed to build off that, and Keane's assessment of the winger is still true to this day.
