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'He's lacking rhythm, intensity, pressing': Nice boss slams Nicolas Pepe's debut

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"He is lacking a bit of rhythm, intensity in his placements, in his pressing as well and in his ball recovery. Because everyone has to do that.

"There aren't any exceptions. If one or two players don't do the work, the whole team is in trouble. Everyone has to do it at the same time, everyone has to defend to recover the ball."

Pepe will be spending the rest of the 2021/22 campaign on loan at 

The 27-year-old made his debut for his new club (straight as part of the starting XI) on Sunday with Nice suffering a 3–0 defeat against 

'He was adamant': Mikel Arteta opens up on Nico Pepe's loan move to OGC Nice

"He's had some very good moments, some moments when he hasn't contributed much in terms of minutes. 

"We have decided to let him go. He needs minutes, he needs to play football, he was very adamant to do that." 

 for a whopping £72 million but has failed to live up to his price tag since then. He left earlier this week on loan to 

The 27-year-old winger could only score 16 times in the Premier League over three seasons, falling out of favour under Arteta. 

Saka and Smith Rowe bizarrely blamed for Nicolas Pepe's Arsenal struggles

"In his second season, with him more settled, he got 16 goals in 47 games. That's a more than some players who we say are good players. It's not bad.

 took his place. You've got to be given the opportunity to play regularly."

's favour last season, featuring in just 23 games across all competitions, scoring three goals and providing six assists.

The 27-year-old, who is yet to play a single minute of football in 2022/23, officially joined 

 on a season-long loan earlier this week.

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100 percent in agreement with your view. The man just down tool on himself and not ready to be ruffled. So he isn't ready at all

Kennedy Okezie

Nah this yur article was not needed, 
This writers have taken the coaches assessment about Pepe to make mockary of him and you are supporting the narrative,

I think what the Coach of Nice was stating that he needs time to adapt to their style, 

Yes Pepe has not been consistent for us, but then why wish others luck in the loan move but his is different?

Bernard Hassler

Read it over and over. 

I will retaliate. 

Pepe is the enemy of himself. 

He has not just played one game for Arsenal, 


My Key point remains. 

Pepe failed to take up his chances.

McVince Ⓜ

I remember saying it here, 

The biggest problem of Pepe is Pepe himself. 

He never fully takes the chance given to him, and he never shows why he should never be left out of the team. 

He has no choice but to redeem himself by doing the right thing when given that chance to be on the pitch.

If not he will still be a bench warmer during his loan spell. 

He got no choice but to learn from Saka, Martinelli, and Smith, and without forgetting Saliba. They are young but embraced the challenge and we can see where they are. 

Pepe wake up and work hard.

In todays world no-one  gives you five games to prove yourself, the managers comments is that, he lack rhythm, pressing and intensity,  agreed he hasn't played for a long time, however is goal is to impress in his first match, show them intensity and pressing even if you lack rhythm, but pepe, he go dey do fine boy.

omo oba

Yes nobody gives you but then thats why you need squad depth

Is Pepe firs game, Pepe wasn’t playing regularly in arsenal squad, just give him 5 games.

Ranking

The manager is does not think  how can Pepe  hold  11 positions. Pepe  is still new in the  team  he has only  be there for  few days  he does not play  magic not even used the teammates

Player		G
Erling Haaland	Man City	20
Cole Palmer	Chelsea	20
Ollie Watkins	Aston Villa	19
Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	17
Alexander Isak	Newcastle	17

'He's lacking rhythm, intensity, pressing': Nice boss slams Nicolas Pepe's debut

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