awooga83 It doesn't become a massive legal thing because players get that done all the time as we've seen ourselves with our squad.
Players are getting excluded for nuances such as lacking tactical discipline, but if it were to happen because a player were on bail during a very sustained police investigation for accusations of rape, the claim is that would be a cruel injustice.
A club's not necessarily gonna be able to terminate a contract without penalty because that's a legal matter, we can all appreciate that. But we also know that if clubs could do that, they'd do it routinely for no more reason than some manager not liking some player's resting facial expression.
I work project-based contracts as a software technical lead these days, and I'd expect to be pushed out by some (maybe not all) clients if I were being investigated for sexual offences.
But now any football club, where the players will be heavily monitored, controlled and disciplined, is suddenly a workplace where that would be especially unfair? Why so?
Yeah we don't know every detail with certainty, but it looks a lot like Arsenal has decided Partey's a good enough footballer that any questions about his conduct must be set aside. It looks very cynical and it probably is.
