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Thomas Partey

FEBravo

HomeSteak wrote:
More from Ghana

Arsenal ask to pay for Thomas Partey in installments

https://footballghana.com/arsenal-ask-to-pay-for-thomas-partey-in-installments

Sort of circumstantial evidence that just proves are interest is very real 😆

HomeSteak

Some more links today, all from The Mail.

Arsenal desperate to raise cash for Thomas Partey and will look to sell Matteo Guendouzi, Alexandre Lacazette or Lucas Torreira to get their priority target.
Head of international recruitment Francis Cagigao, who brought in Gabriel Martinelli, has been working on the deal and initially identified Partey as a key signing. The potential transfer now has been approved by technical director Edu and Arteta.

JazzG

HomeSteak wrote:
More from Ghana

Arsenal ask to pay for Thomas Partey in installments

https://footballghana.com/arsenal-ask-to-pay-for-thomas-partey-in-installments

Why does this pay in instalments thing always pops up when it comes to Arsenal? That is how literally every transfer is paid for yet you’d think it was only arsenal who were doing this!

Claudius

It's just a ridiculous Arsenal brand. We are a joke club. A bunch of Liverpool mates sent me a link yesterday about Aubameyang's contract negotiation. And they were taunting me saying Arsenal need to stop being misers and pay him the £250k/week. I didn't engage with them because I was thinking, these asses, we have a player on 350k, I don't think they even have a single player on 250k and they have the gall to come and make noise that Arsenal doesn't pay players. We have a lot of really shit unwarranted branding that we might only dust off by winning again

ohboy

Yep, people call us a banter club.

The reality is, a lot of money has been wasted on transfers and wages over the years. We spent than Spurs and Liverpool over the last few years.

We just need to identify the right players now, and ship out players before they run down their contracts.

We might shock a few people next season.

Anzac

IIRC the selling club usually requires any release clause to only be valid if paid in full upfront and by cash, rather than by either player swap and/or payment by installments.

Meatwad

JazzG wrote:
HomeSteak wrote:
More from Ghana

https://footballghana.com/arsenal-ask-to-pay-for-thomas-partey-in-installments

Why does this pay in instalments thing always pops up when it comes to Arsenal? That is how literally every transfer is paid for yet you’d think it was only arsenal who were doing this!

shit, barca still owe liverpool like 100m for coutinho (and if liverpool sold the debt, then they owe someone else that).

HomeSteak

Fabrizio is the bomb, encouraging to hear from him not just weak links

Anzac

My only reservation about signing Partey is if doing so means we do not have the available revenue to then be able to directly address any other issues within the team.

Gazza M

I think its worth it to address the most problematic area

Klaus

Yeah, in what world are we going to have money to address all the issues either way? Partey's as good an improvement as there is.

Claudius

Anzac wrote:
My only reservation about signing Partey is if doing so means we do not have the available revenue to then be able to directly address any other issues within the team.

You do not need to address all issues in one summer. The Midfield holes are gaping. We need super quality there. We will do ourselves a disservice if we try buy 5 £20m players to sort out our issues.

Sequencing is key. Midfield is dragging every part of the team down. We need to sort this role out first and then the AM role. We can afford to wait another 1-2 windows to sort central defense. I’d rather we put all the money into the best possible midfielders now. And then when team is stable, push it up a notch by putting all our money next season into best possible central defender and any other big gap.

Coombs

Give our forwards a platform to score and assist, increase their value, sell high, buy Skriniar.

Qwiss

Anzac wrote:
My only reservation about signing Partey is if doing so means we do not have the available revenue to then be able to directly address any other issues within the team.

But how many issues can you properly address without spending on players like Partey? The problem is we need at least 3 Partey level signings.

QuincyAbeyie

It will be very tough to finish top four next season. If Chelsea buy Havertz in addition to already getting Ziyech and Werner I think it's a given that they'll get one spot. That leaves Tottenham, United and us to fight for the last one. I'm not scared of the former, but United are playing well at the moment and have tons of cash.

goon

City will be banned next year too. Plenty of room.

Anzac

Gazza M wrote:
I think its worth it to address the most problematic area

Agreed that it is the priority.

Anzac

Klaus wrote:
Yeah, in what world are we going to have money to address all the issues either way? Partey's as good an improvement as there is.

I think he could well be the single biggest bang for our buck we could currently make in terms of the team.

Anzac

Claudius wrote:
Anzac wrote:
My only reservation about signing Partey is if doing so means we do not have the available revenue to then be able to directly address any other issues within the team.

You do not need to address all issues in one summer. The Midfield holes are gaping. We need super quality there. We will do ourselves a disservice if we try buy 5 £20m players to sort out our issues.

Sequencing is key. Midfield is dragging every part of the team down. We need to sort this role out first and then the AM role. We can afford to wait another 1-2 windows to sort central defense. I’d rather we put all the money into the best possible midfielders now. And then when team is stable, push it up a notch by putting all our money next season into best possible central defender and any other big gap.

The issue with this is that this is pretty much been our approach to signing players since the move, and you never get ahead of the process because new issues will always arise before you finish a rebuild. The team is in a constant state of flux, and instead of upgrading you end up chasing replacements for player who are departing in areas that had been stable, as you don't have the revenues to do both at the same time.

It's no different to AW's philosophy of have a core of developing players, with 1-2 elite players in key roles, and squad players to provide experience.

Anzac

Coombs wrote:
Give our forwards a platform to score and assist, increase their value, sell high, buy Skriniar.

Sell forwards and sign a CB?
We're already likely to sell at least 1 starting forward to raise funds to sign Partey.
If PEA doesn't sign and isn't sold he will likely leave as a free agent at the end of next season.

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