Thomas Partey: Player Thread

[Dennis_Bergkamp_10]

Great player when at it, people forget there were discussions between him and Rodri for best DM in the league a few years back.

Things went downhill from there. Still a class player on his day, but too many off days, injuries and other issues arose. Let's hope Zubi hits the ground running, because last year people hoped Merino would be the end of Partey yet he never came close.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

I honestly can't believe he didn't want to stay at 200K.

Apart from Saudi clubs who gonna offer him 200k+?

 

[Vinci]

Good news.

YB issues aside, too inconsistent and injury-prone, although he was class on his day.

 

[tap-in]

Last season was his best, but at 32 he shouldn’t be demanding crazy money. I suppose on a free, he may get it elsewhere.

 

[Dokaka]

 

[Gooner Zig]

@Rimaal

Come back!

 

[MartiSaka]

I honestly can't believe he didn't want to stay at 200K.

Apart from Saudi clubs who gonna offer him 200k+?

Might be length of contract offered also. Even as a free agent you wouldn't expect he would get a much larger salary.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

@Rimaal

Come back!

The club was actively and demonstrably working to keep TP5.

 

[Mitch]

Good riddance to our biggest flop ever!

Up there with Diaby, Bellerin, Ramsey, Song and Giroud as one of our most overrated players ever.

 

[MutableEarth]

The club was actively and demonstrably working to keep TP5.

Yeah. For all our happiness that he's gone, important to remember that Arsenal were still willing to keep him on board just so they didn't have to sign 2 DMs in one window knowing Jorginho was also leaving. They even started posting him on their X account again instead of hiding him like they were doing before.

I'll say I'm relieved he's gone but happy is a stretch, I'm still quite annoyed with the club and the fact that the player has not been [redacted].

 

[Tnegs]

Yeah. For all our happiness that he's gone, important to remember that Arsenal were still willing to keep him on board just so they didn't have to sign 2 DMs in one window knowing Jorginho was also leaving. They even started posting him on their X account again instead of hiding him like they were doing before.

I'll say I'm relieved he's gone but happy is a stretch, I'm still quite annoyed with the club and the fact that the player has not been [redacted].

Was the club supposed to suspend the player indefinitely based on a bunch of social media posts? 3 years later have there been any charges brought against him? You can’t just end someone’s career based on allegations. This isn’t a Greenwood situation there simply isn’t that type of evidence.

 

[MutableEarth]

Was the club supposed to suspend the player indefinitely based on a bunch of social media posts? 3 years later have there been any charges brought against him? You can’t just end someone’s career based on allegations. This isn’t a Greenwood situation there simply isn’t that type of evidence.

The very least they could have done is not offer him a new deal at all.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

Was the club supposed to suspend the player indefinitely based on a bunch of social media posts? 3 years later have there been any charges brought against him? You can’t just end someone’s career based on allegations. This isn’t a Greenwood situation there simply isn’t that type of evidence.

Over the last few years in social media Ive often seen people often state something like 'Man Utd suspended Greenwood' Why didn't <club x> suspend <player x>

That Greenwood story broke on a Sunday. Within a few hours, he was unfollowed on social media by half of his peers and major Man Utd sponsors were lined up to sever their ties with the club. It wasn't like they had a choice.

 

[baccy_man]

I will not be sorry to see Partey, go he was getting caught on the ball too often and he did not play that many defence splitting passes while he has been worth us, if anything he was playing a lot of short passes and getting the ball back then passing it back to the same player that he had passed the ball to.

 

[HollandGooner]

Good riddance to our biggest flop ever!

Up there with Diaby, Bellerin, Ramsey, Song and Giroud as one of our most overrated players ever.

Strange statement he was not a flop at all tbf.

 

[Mitch]

Strange statement he was not a flop at all tbf.

- More bad performances than good performances each season.

- Each season was our performing player in starting 11.

- Can you name a DM with worse positional awareness and discipline than Partey in PL history? I can't

- Countless of mistakes.

- Hyped up to be Vieira/ Yaya hybrid but turned out to Wanyama Level (and that's being generous).

 

[grange]

Good riddance to our biggest flop ever!

Up there with Diaby, Bellerin, Ramsey, Song and Giroud as one of our most overrated players ever.

You forgot Cazorla too

 

[Mitch]

You forgot Cazorla too

I thought Santi was great.

 

[albakos]

As the contract with this player has expired, all of the recent non-football posts have been moved to a new thread.