Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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Nicolas Pepe: Arsenal sign Lille winger for club record fee
Arsenal have signed Ivorian winger Nicolas Pepe from Lille for a club record fee of £72m.
The 24-year-old has been confirmed for a five-year contract at Emirates Stadium after having a medical on Tuesday.
Pepe joined Lille from Angers in 2017 and scored 35 goals in 74 Ligue 1 appearances for Lille.
“Being here is very emotional,” said Pepe. “I have come a long way and struggled a lot and so signing for this great club is a big reward.”
He becomes the fourth most expensive signing in the history of Premier League after Paul Pogba and Romelu Lukaku of Manchester United (£89m) and £75 respectively), and Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk (£75m).
Pepe added: “It was important to make the right decision and I am convinced that Arsenal is the right choice”
During the 2018-19 Ligue 1 season, only Kylian Mbappe of Paris St-Germain’s had more goals and assists combined than Pepe, who will cleave onto the number 19 shirt for Arsenal.
“Nicolas is a highly rated and talented winger who was wanted by many of the top teams in Europe,” said Gunners boss Unai Emery.
“Signing a top-class winger has been one of our key objectives in this transfer window and I’m delighted he’s joining.
“He will add pace, power and creativity, with the aim of bringing more goals to our team.”
Hello Sport People
It is good to have you here. Here is my first blog page and I hope it makes you feel hearty and informed at all time. I will be focusing on bringing to you the day to day activity going on in the sport world; football, basketball, cricket, lawn tennis etc. I promise it is going to be a fun fare ride as you journey with me. Thanks in anticipation, hope to hear fro you all.
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
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