Gervais Yao Kouassi
Position	Striker
P.O.B.	Anyama, Côte d'Ivoire
D.O.B	27/05/87
Height	5' 11/td>
Club	Lille
Wikipedia

Gervinho's £11m move from Lille to Arsenal will be delayed by at least another week due to visa problems, so the forward will miss the club's seven-day pre-season tour of the Far East.

The Ivory Coast international completed a medical at the Emirates on Wednesday but ran into unexpected problems as his paperwork was not in order.

It meant Gervinho had to go back to France and will not be able to return to England until a visa has been approved which is expected to take at least another seven days.

While Arsenal believe it will not put the 24-year-old's move under threat, it still comes as a setback to Arsène Wenger as the manager was hoping the week-long tour would help the player settle in with the squad.

The club open the pre-season campaign against a Malaysia XI on Wednesday followed by a clash with the Chinese side Hangzhou Greentown on Saturday before returning to Europe to face FC Cologne on 23 July, by which time Gervinho should be on board.





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