Gabriel Magalhaes assisted by Nicolas Pepe for Lille in 2019
Arsenal look set to let Nicolas Pepe leave the club in the January transfer window. Reports from Italy claim AC Milan want to sign the Ivory Coast international in the winter window. Pepe has not started any of Arsenal's last three Premier League matches.
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Arteta said: “I am very encouraged and positive for two reasons.
“One, because he has come a long way in terms of consistency and what he’s producing in games. Not in the Premier League, but what he’s done in Europe this season.
“And the second one because he’s changed his mindset. He wants to look at every mindset, he wants to look at every post-match reflection that we do with him.
“Individually he wants to work and he wants to be the best. When that happens and he has the talent that he has, I think it’s a really good mixture.”
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However, Pepe could be shown the door at the Emirates just eight months later.
He was given more than an opportunity earlier this season to nail down a starting spot.
But his failure to do so could cost him a future with the Gunners.