Thomas Partey’s tenure at Arsenal appears to be drawing to a close due to persistent injury setbacks that have hindered his ability to contribute consistently on the field.
Despite being one of Mikel Arteta’s trusted players, the Ghanaian midfielder has struggled to maintain fitness throughout his time at the club.
In response to Partey’s recurrent fitness issues, Mikel Arteta has been proactive in bolstering Arsenal’s midfield options by securing signings in recent transfer windows.
Looking ahead to the upcoming summer transfer window, Arsenal intends to further reinforce their midfield, with Martin Zubimendi and Amadou Onana emerging as primary targets for recruitment.
According to Mirror Football, Arsenal has made the decision to include Thomas Partey on the list of players available for transfer in the summer transfer window.
This decision stems from Arsenal’s dissatisfaction with Partey’s inconsistent availability due to his fitness concerns, prompting the club to consider offloading him in favour of players who can provide greater reliability in terms of fitness and availability for selection.
Just Arsenal opinion
Partey is a very talented midfielder who instantly improves us when he plays, but injuries have robbed him of a better spell at the Emirates.
As we make progress, there is no reason for us to keep him in the squad beyond this term.
He will hold us back, and we need a team filled with players with much better fitness records.
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That’s long coming,
It’s super sad but then again we must move on, party is never available.
Obviously we are going to be having a few exits in our midfield as Elneny and jorginho may also leave.
I reckon it would be nice if we promote an academy product like Charlie patino together with zubimendi who seem to be our No1 midfield target.
Promoting guys like patino (to fill elneny or jorginho’s spot) as well as someone like mika biereth would send a good message to our academy players, a lot of whom are currently unsettled and undecided as regards their nearest future
This single player could hold the key on Arsenal laying our hands on one of the major big ears mug.
This is why we won’t sell Thomas this summer.
Firstly, who’s willing to buy? This summer injury prone Thomas turns 31 and has 1 year left on a fat 200k/week 10mill/year contract.
So if another club where to sign him, say on a 3 year contract, its 30 mill on salary, and lets say 20 mill for arguments sake in transfer. 50 mill for a player you cannot rely on, with a sell-on value of zero, anyone?
No-one will come.
Instead of paying him to go or cut loose without fee,
it would cost us 10mill to see his contract out.
For this amount we keep a trusted player, who may only be available for perhaps half the games. He plays the midfield 6 and the rb position, so we can use him in the back-up role. The existing back-up players Elneny and Soares have combined contract value of 6.5 mill a year ending this summer. Do not renew. With Thomas around, Patino and Walters could be integrated throughout next season, as we focus this summer on strengthening the midfield, leaving the violation the financial rules to financially doped clubs like Chelsea and Man City.
Some assumptions you make Rob that IMO are not correct. You are assuming Partey , while getting older and with his injury record still present, would expect another club to pay him £200k pw That wont happen plainly! Nor would he expect it too.
However he will still want to play , albeit somewhere and we are now, it seems, giving up on him ever staying fit, so will beTRYING OUR BEST to offload him That is wise too. So you think he will stay put, but I do not.
I suggest what is more likely is that he will find a club willing to pay us a half decent fee and that his new contract elsewhere will likely be for two years or just possibly three but on a lot less pay than now. Probably about HALF as much only.
LEAGUES ABROAD ARE LESS FIERCE AND A LOT EASIER ON THE BODY THAN OUR PREM. This will help him stay fit and prolong his career, which he will be well aware about.
I believe he has known, albeit privately, for some time past that his stay here is rapidly drawing to an end and he IS prepared for that reality.
Therefore I MUCH DISGAGREE with you that he will remain here after this summer.
For both parties it is best that he moves on and that will, IMO HAPPEN!!
Finally he can not be “a trusted figure” when still here He has rarely been fit for long and an inury prone player aged 31 is anything BUT “TRUSTY”.
REALITY!!
Kreiger ,you make sense but AFC value age more than a players’ contribution. We had a player who was released who is still doing business for AC Milan. His career has improved ever since.
Yeah, I was just trying to state what seems to me logic.
The club made a lot of rubbish decisions.