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Arsenal transfer flop sold for a $9 million profit

Related Topics: Arsenal F.C., Gervinho

The Gunners sold one of their struggling players at a loss in 2013 - but that same player has just moved for a massive profit.

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It’s not often you make a profit on someone else’s outcasts - but that’s exactly what Roma has managed with Gervinho.

After just two seasons in the Premier League, Arsene Wenger had decided that the Ivory Coast international wasn’t going to cut the mustard at Arsenal and sold him for 8 million pounds ($11.43M) - a £2.8M loss - to Roma in August 2013.