No competition given the fee paid.
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Who knows what we actually paid. If you told me that there were some off book transactions attached to the Pepe deal I’d believe it.
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Yeah Raul was dodgy as fuck.
I still remember the day we found out we signed him though and the mad excitement. The Ornstein bomb caught everyone off guard. Hell I still remember all the voice notes on my WhatsApp groups that day, pure jubilation 
Such a shame it ended up the way it did!
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Good move for him!
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Yeah, I hope it works out for him.
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Nah fuck him he was whinging about Arsenal and the fans not so long ago.
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Think he’ll do well in Spain. Won’t be going out banging hattricks every month, but will probably repair some of the damage his reputation has taken after that failed big money move. Think Villareal is his level and he should prosper there.
The only thing Pepe reminds me off is that Raul fucked us up with his shit deals and it was a mercy on this club that he got booted out.
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I don’t think he was whinging about Arsenal fans at all. There are two quotes about Arsenal fans attributed to him in recent times,
"When I first joined, the fans weren’t really judging my performances, they were judging the price tag. But I think I did some great things while at Arsenal. I don’t regret my time there.
There’s certainly some truth in that even if it was also fair to judge his performances.
'The only people who have always supported me are the Arsenal fans.
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He was moreso critical of the press and made a point how the Arsenal fans were the only ones who supported him.
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Ah ok I read it in French so maybe translation wasn’t so good, anyway he was whinging about something and I really couldn’t care how his career trajectory went, he ended up being a distinctly average footballer who had a good season before we got stung and his career has gone downhill ever since.
Leaving a Turkish team on a free shows his quality ar the end of the day and that’s down to him, so still fuck him about having a moan😉
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he’s gonna have to run a bit now, for sure, that is no club you slouch around the pitch at.
I hope he does well, his biggest issue was that he got knocked down the pecking order by a wonderkid, that can happen anywhere.
We shouldn’t have bought him for that sum, he wasn’t happy about his time at Arsenal but he took time to walk around the pitch thanking Gooners at the end of his last season with us.
He should go onto the list of ex-Gunners who’ll be given a warm welcome if he plays at the Emirates again.
IDK maybe he just wasn’t that good to begin with? Pile that on top of being the opposite profile to the profile Emery wanted. In hindsight, it was doomed to fail.
Good to see him smiling and enjoying his football.
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MVP - Most Valuable Pepe, luckily the former defender wasn’t playing in this game so Nicolas won the award unopposed
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