Arsenal look for buyers for £72m flop Nicolas Pepe
Arsenal look for buyers for £72m flop Nicolas Pepe
The 28-year-old has been unable to make the expected impact at the Emirates Stadium since joining the club from Lille in 2019
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Arsenal's transfer records according to transfermarkt:
Rank Name Amount Season 1 Nicolas Pépé €80m 19/20 2 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang €64m 17/18 3 Benjamin White €59m 21/22 4 Alexandre Lacazette €53m 17/18 5 Gabriel Jesus €52m 22/23 6 Thomas Partey €50m 20/21 7 Mesut Özil €50m 13/14 8 Granit Xhaka €45m 16/17 9 Alexis Sánchez €43m 14/15 10 Shkodran Mustafi €41m 16/17 It's in Euros because they record it in Euros in their database, even though the spending was reported in pounds in many sources. Keeping it in pounds would have been tricky with inflation and currency rate changes over the years.
So, Pépé was the most expensive player Arsenal ever bought, but was he the biggest flop from the top 10?
Who do you think was the best and worst deal from that top 10 list?
It's also interesting to see the transfer inflation. When Arsenal bought Ozil, he set the transfer record, and €50m was a lot of money. Just 3 years later Mustafi cost €41m and while that was a lot of money for Mustafi, it didn't register as a massive transfer spending, the way €50m had just a few years earlier.
People who try to do wenger down really forget just how little we used to spend.
Serie A and La Liga were dropping Sanchez money a decade and a half before we were and Chelsea dropped as much on Shaun Wright Phillips