Nicolas Pepe needs to start delivering for Arsenal against “big sides”, says Ray Parlour, with a £72 million ($96m) asset at Emirates Stadium accused of taking “the easy option” against Premier League opponents.
The Gunners made the Ivory Coast international their club-record signing when doing a big-money deal with Lille in the summer of 2019.
Pepe was supposed to arrive in north London and become a talismanic presence for an ambitious Premier League outfit.
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The 25-year-old is yet to scale those heights, with many placing him into the expensive flop category.