Today should be an exciting day. At some point we'll announce the signing of Nicolas Pepe from Lille, and for the third time in two years we'll have smashed our club record transfer fee. First it was Alex Lacazette, for around £50m in 2017, breaking the £41.5m we spent on Mesut Ozil in 2013. In January 2018 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang added another £6m to the record, and if reports are right the £72m we'll spend on Pepe will blast through that mark. I guess it highlights the fact that as a club we have spent money recently, so complaints and concerns weren't really about what we spent, but how we spent it. That, however, is a discussion for another day. What we should be talking about is...
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