5 constantly linked players that never joined Arsenal

Yoann Gourcuff to Arsenal

We know that Arsenal have loved signing French players down the years given the reign of Arsene Wenger but one man who almost felt like an unofficial Gunners star at times was Yoann Gourcuff.

At one stage, you couldn’t escape his name being linked with an Arsenal switch but despite being billed as the new Zinedine Zidane in his earlier years, the 30-year-old has failed to live up to expectations in his career.

Now back at his first Ligue 1 club Rennes after spells at AC Milan, Bordeaux and Lyon, Gourcuff was no doubt a talented player in his early twenties but it appears Arsene Wenger knew he was on the decline, hence him never joining the Gunners.