Former Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has again been talking up Arsenal attacker Nicolas Pepe.
Speaking on Sky Sports last night, Mourinho again spoke of his trips to Lille last season, where he watched Pepe.
Last season after I left United, I went a few times to Lille because my friend is the coach there [Christophe Galtier]," he said in the studio after Arsenal drew 2-2 with Tottenham.
So I know quite a lot about his qualities. They were playing 4-4-2 and he was the right sided player.
He knows how to defend, to play in the 4-4-2 as the right winger, you know how to defend, not only that area but also the inside.
He does that very well. When he has the ball and also without the ball, he is very effective and very direct. The goals that he misses against Arsenal, he normally doesn't miss it.
He's very cool in front of the keeper and I think this boy has fantastic potential.
To play as they did last weekend against Liverpool, was out of his natural habitat.
If they are to play three in midfield with him, Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang at the front, looking to the movements, I think they can make it a real force."
