Arsenal: 3 facts that make Nicolas Pepe a resounding success

2. Second-most goals

I always end up back at this fact. we brought in Nicolas Pepe to provide goals, yes? Obviously. Why else do you spend that much money on a player? You want them to bring something you didn’t already have, which I covered in point one, and you want goals, which I’ll talk about now.

Nicolas Pepe has seven goals and eight assists across the Premier League and Europa League. That’s 15 goal contributions, in case you’re no good at math.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has 20 goals and one assist in the same competitions for 21 goal contributions. The only Arsenal player that can say he does more than Pepe in this department. but when you get down to the minutes they’ve played, you see something else.

Aubameyang is scoring or assisting every 137 minutes. Pepe? 131 minutes. Meaning that no one on this entire club is more efficient at producing goals than Nicolas Pepe. You want to talk about value? There’s no more value than that.

On to No. 1.