Thomas Partey

[HairSprayGooners]

If you watched the Amazon Prime series about Man City, you could see how complicated it can be to pay a RC in Spain especially during a weekend. Man City did it for Laporte and it was really tight to get the payment over to LaLiga offices/bank.

Hard to believe we'll be able to finalize Aouar, sell/loan 4 NHG players and get Partey within 3 days...

I did watch that but that was a quick fire decision on Laporte. It wasn't a deal that City were looking at for months and they had 0 preparation to get it done.

If we indicated that we were activating the clause sunday evening the deal could be done within the next 24 hours through Monday.

 

[Mitch]

Praying for Bellerin lifetime contract now.

Never seen such a self masochistic comment.

 

[Makavelii]

Its happening, reason why they are haggling so much over Aouar & not to simply give Lyon the extra €10m is to leave as much as possible in case we need to trigger Partey's releases clause.

So you’re reasoning is that we wouldn’t haggle over a measly 10 million euros unless we planned on spending it on Partey... Like that’s the only possible explanation.

 

[razörist]

As soon as Aouar is done we get Partey, can’t show Aulas we have more cash before finishing the deal or he’ll start a twitter war again!

 

[MartiSaka]

With what money do we get Partey. Did uncle Stan decide to open his wallet?

 

[SA Gunner]

Apologies for the non-story bump folks.

We need this player, for me personally the most important signing we make for a while.

Please Arsenal, get this one done.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

With what money do we get Partey. Did uncle Stan decide to open his wallet?

We don't know how much we have but know we got 32 players in squad so we need free up space NHG players to buy 2 midfielders

 

[HairSprayGooners]

With what money do we get Partey. Did uncle Stan decide to open his wallet?

We are bidding 35-45M for a player without making any additional sales to Martinez. There's clearly money to spend.

 

[MD3 Gunner]

We are bidding 35-45M for a player without making any additional sales to Martinez. There's clearly money to spend.

Enough for Aouar but not both

 

[HairSprayGooners]

Enough for Aouar but not both

This is the point though. Everyone was saying we need to sell to buy when we clearly don't. Nobody knows what cash we have available to spend.

 

[tap-in]

We are bidding 35-45M for a player without making any additional sales to Martinez. There's clearly money to spend.

We dont know how much we paid up front for Gabriel. Or do we? Also we dont know how much our budget was to start with.

 

[MartiSaka]

We are bidding 35-45M for a player without making any additional sales to Martinez. There's clearly money to spend.

Kola and Mustafi will likely raise money. So maybe we are spending an additional 30-40 million (if you include Gabriel and Pepe staged payment) if its all up front (which we don't know) but will we spend 80-90 million? We didn't get close to this last summer pre COVID.

 

[Rex Stone]

Going to go out on a limb and say if there’s not big news by end of tomorrow it’s not happening.

After today there’s two working days left for Spanish banks and they shut at 2:30. It’s what’s held up other clubs paying La Liga release clauses because there’s God knows how many money transfers involved.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Going to go out on a limb and say if there’s not big news by end of tomorrow it’s not happening.

After today there’s two working days left for Spanish banks and they shut at 2:30. It’s what’s held up other clubs paying La Liga release clauses because there’s God knows how many money transfers involved.

yeah we can't leave it late or we'll make same Manutd mistakes with Herrera.

 

[Rex Stone]

yeah we can't leave it late or we'll make same Manutd mistakes with Herrera.

Bayern shouldn’t really have been allowed to sign Javi Martinez iirc as that was well after the deadline.

Also City almost didn’t make it with Laporte.

 

[SingmeasongSong]

Going to go out on a limb and say if there’s not big news by end of tomorrow it’s not happening.

After today there’s two working days left for Spanish banks and they shut at 2:30. It’s what’s held up other clubs paying La Liga release clauses because there’s God knows how many money transfers involved.

This would also imply that big news for Aouar would have to come before that, no ?

Paying Partey's release clause before getting the deal for Aouar over the line sounds dangerous with Aulas.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Bayern shouldn’t really have been allowed to sign Javi Martinez iirc as that was well after the deadline.

Also City almost didn’t make it with Laporte.

so if we somehow activate the Partey release clause early Monday we won't have much time left to complete the deal? seeing the english window close at 5pm in Monday.

I think we should have know by now the A.Madrid view won't change and Partey not pushing the move if we want to activate his clause we should do it today.

 

[tap-in]

Going to go out on a limb and say if there’s not big news by end of tomorrow it’s not happening.

After today there’s two working days left for Spanish banks and they shut at 2:30. It’s what’s held up other clubs paying La Liga release clauses because there’s God knows how many money transfers involved.

Agreed. The only way it goes to Mon is if we end up doing a cash + Torreira deal. I know Atletico say they wont do that but anything can happen.

 

[Rex Stone]

This would also imply that big news for Aouar would have to come before that, no ?

Paying Partey's release clause before getting the deal for Aouar over the line sounds dangerous with Aulas.

Really Aouar needs wrapping up pronto. Not announced but he needs to be a bit closer than still training with the first team.

If we make a breakthrough tonight and doesn’t train tomorrow then Aulas really can’t pull out of the deal.

Gives you about 12 banking hours to get everything in place for Partey before the deadline and can work on any more outgoings over the weekend.

 

[Rex Stone]

so if we somehow activate the Partey release clause early Monday we won't have much time left to complete the deal? seeing the english window close at 5pm in Monday.

I think we should have know by now the A.Madrid view won't change and Partey not pushing the move if we want to activate his clause we should do it today.

It’s because to “activate the clause” we don’t really pay Atletico.

We give a lawyer representing Thomas the money, then we have a meeting with him and La Liga where they’ll decide if they’re happy with everything.

Payment goes to La Liga I believe then Atletico and you’re finally over the line. The problem is if we pay his representative at 8:30am when the banks open in Spain we have until 2pm to get through the league meeting and then make two different transfers before the banks shut and you’re done.

I know clubs speed things up around the deadline but it’s such a complicated way of getting things done it takes that bit longer.