Wolverhampton Wanderers and Spurs are reportedly interested in bringing Nicholas Pepe to the Premier League from Ligue 1 high-flyers Lille.
Lille may be forced to sell reported Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers target Nicolas Pepe in the summer transfer window, sporting director Luis Campos has told Telefoot.
The Ivory Coast international is enjoying the best season of his career in Ligue 1, his 16 goals and eight assists transforming Les Dogues from relegation candidates into Champions League challengers in the space of just a few months.
As a result, Pepe’s form has caught the eye of plenty of clubs from across the Channel. Le10 Sport claims that Wolves are interested, having sent scouts to watch him in action in December. The Times, meanwhile, believe that Spurs are interested in bringing the 23-year-old to North London.
So both Nuno and Mauricio Pochettino should be encouraged by comments made by Lille’s sporting director on Sunday.
“We are not a rich club,” Luis Campos told Telefoot.
“It means that if a really good proposal comes in for Pepe, we have to sell him.”
Pepe, however, would not come cheap. The report adds that the former Angers forward is valued at a staggering £72 million and it remains to be seen whether Wolves or Spurs would be willing to shatter their transfer record.
Tottenham have famously failed to sign a single player in each of the last two transfer windows. And with chairman Daniel Levy devoting much of the club’s funds to the building of their new stadium, they should be hoping that Lille would be open to haggling on that fee.
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