It appears that the Arsenal star’s wife has given birth to a baby boy. The 25-year-old missed the recent clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers as his wife went into labour, plus he was an unused substitute in the last game against Leicester City. The club announced the news on social media, writing: "Nicolas Pepe misses today's game due to personal reasons, as his wife has gone into labour. Nicolas Pepe missed Arsenal's win at Wolves as his wife entered labour.Before kickoff, the club announced the news on social media, writing: "Nicolas Pe football-addict.com Nicolas Pepe missed Arsenal win with wife in labour Ole needed a win Nicolas Pepe's Absence in Wolves game is Family as his wife has gone into labour "The competition is between six, seven, eight, maybe even nine clubs now to fight for those positions, so we have to be very smart and we have to be very decisive when we make our decisions." Indeed, the money was too good for Pepe and Lille to consider any other aspect of the beautiful game.Hence, when the Ivory Coast national team winger arrived at Arsenal, fans, pundits and critics expected so much from him due to the amount of money Arsenal spent to bring him to the Premier League in the 5 years deal which will expire in 2024.Besides the money, his performance at Lille was also something that gave Arsenal’s fans a lot of hope. Ole Gunnar Solskjær was in charge of Manchester United and his team struggled once again. France international player, Alexander Lacazette, Burnley FC got the job done when they visited Manchester United at home on January 22, 2020. He has got the talent, immense quality and he is willing to do it”. "Now is the moment to make another step forward and improve the squad and the players that we have.He added he will "absolutely" have the final word on signings, saying: "We have a very strong group [working on signings] and the communication is really clear, not only with [head of football] Raul [Sanllehi], [managing director] Vinai [Venkatesham], [contract negotiator] Huss [Fahmy] and [technical director] Edu, but also with the ownership about where we want to go.

He signed for Lille in 2017, and was named to the … "Gooners on social media had questioned why the Ivorian star had not been put in the starting XI when it was announced earlier this afternoon. Before the game, Arsenal posted on Twitter: “Nicolas Pepe misses today's game due to personal reasons, as his wife has gone into labour.” Both Pepe, 25, and his wife are devout Muslims and the forward rightly put his personal life ahead of football for the weekend.

Before kickoff, the club announced the news on social media, writing: “Nicolas Pepe misses today’s game due to personal reasons, as his wife has gone into labour.”

Alongside the game, Mikel Arteta is expected to address whether Nicolas Pepe will be available for selection after missing the Wolves outing due to his wife being in labour at the time of the game. ARSENAL will be without Nicolas Pepe against Wolves after his pregnant wife went into labour. If such a trait continues, the hope of the fans will be rekindled and the club could end up having a legend in the youngster.Mikel Arteta has taken up the challenge to make Nicolas Pepe fulfill his potentials at Arsenal. See the picture below.Normally, Nicolas Pepe’s sister, Corine Pepe would have leaked the news on her Instagram page because she is very active online. No thanks to his performance, Arsenal could end up not making it into a Champions League spot for the third consecutive time as they are currently sitting on the 8th spot with 50 points. In less than 10 months after, the fans feel it was an unwise investment.Besides how the fans feel about Pepe and the amount of money the club had to spend on him, it was more or less a tradition for the North London club to invest in academy players, make them stars and then sell them for a huge sum of money.

It was exciting to Arsenal’s fans that their beloved club could invest such an amount of money on a player. They have 4 games remaining and need 9 points to get to the 4th placed Leicester City.Besides that, according to “Transfer Markt” website, Pepe’s current transfer market value is €52 million, that is, about £46.5 million. As it stands, Arsenal would lose over £15 million if they should sell him today.Besides the fact that Pepe’s wife just gave birth to a baby boy for the Arsenal star, the arrival of Mikel Arteta to the club is Pepe’s best news in 2020 because the arrival of Arteta has greatly improved the game of the 25-year-old winger. The 25-year-old right-winger joined Arsenal from Lille in August 2019 for £72 million. His average salary in a year based on his current 5 years deal with Arsenal is £7,280,000.Pepe transferred to Arsenal on August 1, 2019, he signed a 5-year contract with the club in August 2019.Chelsea in pursuit of Sergej Milinkovic-Savic after opening talks with Lazio As United fans recover from the Tragic defeat at Anfield, more defeat comes in as Manchester United will soon answer to a query.

The best deal they had that summer was Alex Iwobi’s £35 million transfer to Everton.