Sampdoria
Lucas Torreira
July 2018
Lorient
Matteo Guendouzi
January 2019
Barcelona (loan)
Denis Suarez
July 2019
Ituano
Gabriel Martinelli
July 2019
Real Madrid (loan)
Dani Ceballos
July 2019
Saint Etienne
William Saliba
July 2019
Lille
Nicolas Pepe
August 2019
Celtic
Kieran Tierney
August 2019
Chelsea
David Luiz
The Ivorian was signed for a then club-record fee of £72m but didn't enjoy much success in north London, scoring just 27 goals in 112 matches.
Subsequently sent out on loan during Arteta's reign, he then left on a free transfer. Talk about poor business.
Emery allegedly didn't even want him either, instead preferring Crystal Palace star Wilfried Zaha. What might have been, eh?
"We signed Pepe. He’s a good player but we didn’t know his character and he needs time, patience. I favoured someone who knew the league and wouldn’t need to adapt. Zaha won games on his own: Tottenham, Manchester City, us. Incredible performances. I told them: ‘This is the player I know and want." - Unai Emery.
It wasn't all doom and gloom though. Emery was the man to help bring William Saliba to Arsenal and there's also Gabriel Martinelli who has been a bargain acquisition at just £6m.
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Gabriel Martinelli's transfer value in 2024
The winger may have struggled to find his best form over the last 12 months or so but there is no doubting how good a signing he has been and he's now worth a very pretty penny.
Indeed, according to CIES Football Observatory, the 23-year-old is worth a staggering £88m, making him the third-highest valued Brazilian footballer in the world. Not bad.
Why is he worth so much? Well, possessing explosive attributes and the ability to cause chaos for some of the best defenders on the globe, he's proven himself to be one of the most exciting young forwards around. In the words of Rio Ferdinand, he is a "massive talent".
In the 2022/23 season, he was Arsenal's joint-top scorer with 15 goals, evidence that he was one of their most important players in the title challenge of that campaign.
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Since then, however, he's not had it all his own way. The arrival of Leandro Trossard in January 2023 has caused him some problems. Often in and out of the starting lineup, Martinelli scored just eight times - six of which came in the league - throughout the 2023/24 term.
That being said, he is now starting to rediscover himself on Arsenal's left flank in the new campaign having contributed four times in his last three games (two goals and two assists).
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Quickly finding his feet in the Arsenal team again, Martinelli is demonstrating exactly why he is worth such a mighty sum of cash. If the Gunners ever were to get rid, they could do so knowing they'd receive a hefty amount of profit.
At the time of writing, his transfer valuation has risen a whopping 1366% from that initial £6m transfer fee. The boy from Guarulhos, Sao Paulo hasn't half done bad, has he?
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