Arsenal’s long-time record contract agreed to personal terms with the new club.
The 2023 summer transfer window for Arsenal and Mikel Arteta is extremely exciting with blockbusters being brought to the Emirates, which also means that the Gunners’ transfer record holder, Nicolas Pepe, has been “usurped” as an inevitable consequence.
In fact, Arsenal’s board of directors also informed the Ivory Coast striker earlier that his career at the Emirates was over when Pepe was completely out of the Spanish coach’s plans for the new season.
Nicolas Pepe searched throughout the 2023 summer transfer window but could not find a way out for him, because the Arab giants did not bother to pay attention to the 28-year-old star. This striker’s opportunity to go to the Saudi Pro League also officially closed yesterday, when the transfer market in the Middle East was officially closed.
However, “God does not disappoint anyone” and Pepe finally found a club that wanted him, Besiktas. Very quickly, the two sides conducted official negotiations, Nicolas Pepe even passed the medical examination and was just waiting to sign the contract.
Suddenly, Trabzonspor “jumped” in, not knowing how attractive this Turkish representative’s offer was, but it quickly “broke down” all previous agreements between Pepe and Besiktas and “turned around” and nodded. initially agreed to join Trabzonspor without hesitation.
Leading transfer expert Fabrizio Romano said that Pepe himself confirmed that he refused to go to Saudi Arabia to join the Turkish representative because the 28-year-old striker was completely convinced by the plan that Trabzonspor “drawed”.
Currently, the parties are negotiating the transfer fee for this deal. RMC Sport journalist Fabrice Hawkins stated that Arsenal wants about 4 million pounds for their striker, a number that is considered too good for Trabzonspor because, in the summer of 2019, Pepe came to the Emirates Stadium team for a sum of up to 72 million. Board.
For Nicolas Pepe, this is considered a better solution to save his peak career. In the context of being only 28 years old, the age when he should have been at his best and at his peak, he was not. buried himself on the bench at the Emirates.