ARSENAL are reportedly concerned with bringing one other Pepe to the membership.
Ivory Coast worldwide attacker Nicolas Pepe joined the Gunners for a whopping £72million in 2019.
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However he has did not shine since his arrival and the membership are determined to get him off the wage invoice.
Sevilla have been linked with the 27-year-old – however Arsenal would want to just accept an enormous loss on the star.
Nevertheless, regardless of him being a flop, the North London membership are allegedly eager on his namesake at Porto.
Pepe, the 23-year-old Brazilian ahead fairly than the Portuguese veteran defender, is the person they’ve their eye on.
Newspaper A Bola says that Arsenal made an method for the South American earlier this summer season whereas thrashing out the deal for his former teammate Fabio Vieira.
However they have been knowledgeable that they would want to cough up a determine of round £60m.
That will have triggered the discharge clause in his contract.
Arsenal have been then alleged to have registered a bid of £25.3m.
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That supply was immediately rejected by Porto, who continued to carry out for over double that, and there have been no additional bids since.
However Pepe, in accordance with A Bola, remains to be “properly referenced” by Arsenal.
They add that the Premier League membership “promise to be attentive” to the participant’s performances within the Champions League this season.
And that would result in them trying to observe up their curiosity once more subsequent summer season.
