Top Ten Arsenal Transfer Market Near-Misses

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9. Yaya Toure

Arsenal famously had Yaya Toure on trial as a youngster in the summer of 2003. At the time his brother Kolo remarked that he was a better player than he was, but Wenger didn’t see enough in him during a few pre-season games to consider signing him permanently – then again, he was playing him as a striker. Wenger would have had plenty of chances to sign the midfield powerhouse again before he eventually made a name for himself with Olympiakos and Monaco, and ended up at Barcelona. Now a star player at Manchester City, it’s another case of what could have been for Arsenal, who could have had a world class talent for peanuts before anyone else had heard of him.

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