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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has hinted Robin van Persie’s departure from the club is more "painful" than Alexis Sanchez's impending move to Manchester United.
Van Persie was the last high-profile player to leave the Emirates Stadium for Old Trafford when the Dutchman signed for £24m in August 2012.
Sanchez looks likely to follow suit six years on, ending his three-and-a-half-year stint at the Gunners, who signed him for £35m from Barcelona in the summer of 2014. However, Wenger believes losing Van Persie, who joined Arsenal at just 20 years old from Feyenoord for a reported £3m, was a harder loss.
"We took Van Persie when he played in the reserve team at Feyenoord,” he said. “We made a long work with him. When you get them there and, after they leave, that is the most painful."
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