Thomas Partey is one of the Arsenal players whose future is uncertain at the Emirates.
The midfielder has been struggling with injuries, although when he plays, he performs well for the team.
After missing much of last season due to injury, he returned at the end of the campaign and delivered some fine performances.
He remains a key player for Arsenal, and when he is fit, he is probably their most important performer.
However, his injury record is terrible, and Arsenal has no plans to extend his contract.
The Gunners are open to selling him this summer for a good offer, with his contract expiring at the end of this season.
Partey has been linked with a move to several clubs, including those in the Saudi Pro League.
However, there has been little activity in terms of a potential transfer from Arsenal this summer. Journalist James Benge has discussed the possibility of a move to the Pro League and the likelihood of the midfielder running down his contract.
He said on Charles Watts’ Inside Arsenal:
“From what I understand about Thomas Partey’s situation, he intends to stay for the final year of his contract,.
“Everyone talks about Saudi Arabia – there’s been no conversations with PIF so far and no offers from any other Saudi clubs.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Partey is a fine performer, and if he can get over his injury problems and play many games this season, then we need to consider offering him a new contract.
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I’m not sure why there’s much optimism that Partey will get over his injury problems. He’s 31 years old now – no still-growing youngster. His injury record at Arsenal is pretty poor and I doubt it will improve substantially, although we all hope he will.
From the article it looks like he’ll be staying until his contract expires so let’s hope he will manage to get a good run of games at some time in the 2024-25 season as, when he’s fit, he’s certainly an asset.
How much money Arsenal would have got for Partey (even from Saudi) given his fitness problems are hardly a secret is up for debate. However, it’s another player Arsenal could have got something for and saved on his wages at least.
I wonder why Arsenal didn’t move him on and go for Amadou Onana; a much younger, competent replacement with an upside.
We can’t play Partey in two games a week so we’ll have to drop Partey from early European fixtures and only play him on the weekend
agreed, the concern I have is even if he is fit Partey cannot play two games a week and neither can Jorginho – either have any kind of injury we are very exposed
Edu/Arteta know that so I am certain will bring in at least one top quality DM
if so Partey becomes a very expensive back-up who can’t even be relied upon when needed and walks for free next season
plus, we have to be honest with ourselves, Partey was bad against Everton and Man U (lost control of midfield to the second string of the worst Man U team in decades)
complete DM rebuild is needed over next 2 seasons regardless (max 1 year in Partey) so to begin that process this window makes a lot of sense
You keep on mentioning two games that Partey, in your opinion, had bad performances.
Did MA sub him in either game?
What about the other games he’s played since coming back from injury?
Players do come back from long term injuries, as Aaron Ramsey proved and what would be the cost of replacing him and with whom?
If what your sayubg about Partey is correct, why do you think anyone would buy him?
I think we should wait and see how he performs in the preseason friendlies, before casting him out and also watch what MA decides to do – he might even offer him a new contract if his performances warrant it
Partey was excellent against Spurs, but lost control of the midfield against the second string of a poor Man U team – if you think he put in a top performance in that game I am all ears
inconsistent performance added to inconsistent availability is not a great combination, factor in age and one year left before walking for free
my point is Partey and Jorginho can not cover the +50 games of PL/CL/Cups, to go in to next season with those two alone is suicide – we can at least agree on that
so Arsenal must bring an additional high quality DM this window
now this is where the FFP/PSR maths works against Partey
if Partey stays one more year the PSR cost is £9m amortisation (£45m over 5 yr contract) + £8m salary (estimate) = £17m total cost for PSR
but another DM must come in, let’s say Merino as the most solidly linked and cheapest option, say £28m and 4 year contract at £4m (similar to Calafiori £65k p/wk) = £7m amortisation (£28m over 4 years) + £4m = £11m cost for PSR
combined = £17m + £11m = £28m cost
but if Arsenal sell Partey in this window for say £15m (some will too low, some too high) then for PSR Arsenal still have to write of the £9m (unamortised contract) but £zero in wages, so a net £6m revenue for PSR
so the sell Partey buy Merino net for PSR is £5m cost (£11m cost less £6m revenue)
a delta of £23m for PSR between the too scenarios (£28m vs £5m) which about athird of the overall PSR £105m cumulative loss over 3 years
so financially it makes a lot of sense to sell someone who needs replacing anyway