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Nicolas Pépé

Stalwart RM, also RB, CAM Right-footed dribblercreator
Rating
82
#23
Editorial rank of 33 for Côte d’Ivoire
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Twenty-two goals and eleven assists in the 2018-19 Ligue 1 season carried Lille to second behind PSG and made Pépé the Prix Marc-Vivien Foé winner, and on 1 August 2019 Arsenal paid 72 million pounds for him, a club record. He won the FA Cup in 2020 and the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations with Ivory Coast, and made the Ligue 1 team of the year in 2019.

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Career record

2012–2013Poitiers
2013–2017Angers SCO
2015–2016US Orléans
2017–2019Lille OSC
2019–2023Arsenal
2022–2023OGC Nice
2023–2024Trabzonspor
2024–todayVillarreal CF

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One rank above: Max Gradel at #22.

One rank below: Arthur Boka at #24.

Côte d’Ivoire's editorial top five: Didier Drogba · Yaya Touré · Kolo Touré · Gervinho · Salomon Kalou.