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The forgotten Arsenal star who owns a multi billion pound company worth over 40 times Cristiano Ronaldo's staggering £500m net worth

Premier League players can make millions from their football careers but one forgotten former Arsenal star has enjoyed arguably far greater success after it.

Frenchman Mathieu Flamini made 246 appearances for Arsenal across two separate spells from 2004 to 2008 and later 2013 to 2016.

It was just after he left the Gunners the first time for AC Milan in 2008, that he and his economics graduate business partner, Pasquale Granata, founded the company 'GF Biochemicals' in the hope of revolutionising the energy industry.

The 39-year-old retired in 2019 and the biochemical entrepreneur has found great success with his other passion in his life outside of football.