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Nicolas Pepe has previously delivered his verdict on playing in the No. 9 role amid suggestions he should be given a chance at centre-forward for Arsenal.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's exit means that the Gunners have lost their main source of goals in recent years.

Whilst they will need to address that issue in the summer transfer market, for the remainder of the season, the club have predominantly entrusted Alexandre Lacazette and Eddie Nketiah - both of whom are expected to follow Aubameyang through the exit door - with the burden of finding the form needed to fire Arsenal to the Champions League.

Gunners legend Ian Wright has suggested that Mikel Arteta could play Pepe more centrally after Aubameyang left the club.

“I’d like to see something from him. When you watch him in the Africn Cup of Nations, I feel as though the defending is even harder with how athletic and how good they are and how intelligent they are," he said whilst speaking on the Ringer FC Podcast, via HITC.

"You have to do a lot more, and he’s done it. Why aren’t we getting that out of him?

“Play him as a false nine, play him in a role where he’s free and he can run at people. It seems to me that Mikel is doing something where he has to take a chance on that.

"Because I’m feeling