Arsenal hero Keown slams summer signing Pepe

Football
4 Oct 2019 • 10:16 PM MYT
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Arsenal hero Martin Keown has slammed summer signing Nicolas Pepe.

The Ivorian winger is Arsenal's 72million club-record signing but has struggled to live up to expectations that followed his mega-money move to the Emirates Stadium from Lille.

Keown said on BT Sport: "If you think back to Arsene Wenger, he would have never have blocked the path of a young player but they are in danger of doing that with Bukayo Saka.

"Pepe, is he going to get into the team? It's a massive amount of money they have paid for him and Lille will be laughing all the way to the bank with that one.

"It's still early days and maybe the player will turn it around but I haven't really seen what I expected to see from him."