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Thomas Partey

Frawdulant said:
I was really impressed with Bakary Soumaré. I’d personally prefer to bring him in if he were similarly priced to Partey. Although I have some question marks over Rice, I’m a firm believer in a manager being able to bring in the players he chooses so Rice will be my first choice as long as he is Lampards.
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Went super quiet on that front, didn’t it? It seemed likely we would sign Soumare ahead of last January’s window.

 
mwblue10 said:
Went super quiet on that front, didn’t it? It seemed likely we would sign Soumare ahead of last January’s window.
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Yeah and I got totally sucked into the hype haha! Really expected to see him make the move. Certainly seems like if we ever were really interested that we no longer are. 

 
Our midfield is so much ahead of Arsenal even if they sign him.

 
If he carries his Athletico form over, Arsenal have a real game changer here, this guy is class in that DM position 

 
Yeah we’ve obviously had a great window, but fair to say arsenal and spurs have done far more than I anticipated. Could be a very interesting season. 

The big positive is we’ve signed young talent mostly so have a long time to build this squad up. Arsenal and spurs squads are more about the now with players at their peak.

 
It's not possible to sign every good player out there, I'm sure Partey is one, but we have signed our first options, so can't stop our rivals from buying him. Arsenal had to get rid of two first teamers to get him, if he's out for some reasons, they don't have much depth to cover

 
Apparently the main reason we couldnt get Partey is because we couldn't shift enough of our deadwood... What a joke. Struggling to shift these sh*te players so all we can do is endless and pointless loans over and over again and now we've missed out on a quality player because of it.

Cannot wait for the new loan rules to come in where we can't do this bullcrap anymore. And for the idiots who talk about how much money we make because of these loans - we make f**k all! Vast majority of our loanees go out for free and we pay some of the wages as well. Only player we got a loan fee for atm is Bakayoko and its only a measly,good for nothing 1.8m!

The way we use the loan system is pathetic, and the sooner the new rules are here the better.

 
We were never in for Partey, it was blatantly his agent using us to get Arsenal to up their offer.

 
driller97 said:
Only player we got a loan fee for atm is Bakayoko and its only a measly,good for nothing 1.8m!
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Pretty much every player leaving on loan carries a loan fee, that's literally how they work. It's just not widely reported what those fees are.

Barkley's loan to Villa is rumoured to be up to £11m. Bakayoko's fee to Napoli is widely reported to be £4.5m, RLC is apparently £2m. 

So that's getting on for £20m in loan fees already, not too shabby if you ask me. 

 
Brutos said:
If he carries his Athletico form over, Arsenal have a real game changer here, this guy is class in that DM position 
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Big if, Rodri was deemed the second coming of jesus when he left Leti for City.

A lot of players tend to struggle once they leave Simeone's system, although that said Partey has an advantage Rodri, Miranda, Godin and Greizmann didn't in respect that his new team play a similar brand of backs to the walls footy Simeone does.

 
driller97 said:
Apparently the main reason we couldnt get Partey is because we couldn't shift enough of our deadwood... What a joke. Struggling to shift these sh*te players so all we can do is endless and pointless loans over and over again and now we've missed out on a quality player because of it.

Cannot wait for the new loan rules to come in where we can't do this bullcrap anymore. And for the idiots who talk about how much money we make because of these loans - we make f**k all! Vast majority of our loanees go out for free and we pay some of the wages as well. Only player we got a loan fee for atm is Bakayoko and its only a measly,good for nothing 1.8m!

The way we use the loan system is pathetic, and the sooner the new rules are here the better.
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You are terribly misinformed. Every loan deal has a loan fee and carries subsidized wages.

The agents were just using us as a way to bump up the price. 

Partey won't transform Arsenal this season. That would be Gabriel.

Take it easy man.

 
Argo said:
Big if, Rodri was deemed the second coming of jesus when he left Leti for City.

A lot of players tend to struggle once they leave Simeone's system, although that said Partey has an advantage Rodri, Miranda, Godin and Greizmann didn't in respect that his new team play a similar brand of backs to the walls footy Simeone does.
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The last DM they signed was destined to be the bestest ever also, he ended up being an add on to the signing Partey....that went well.

 
Should have signed this guy. Gutted that we d*cked around over a bang average Rice who we didn't get anyway

 
WhiteWall said:
Should have signed this guy. Gutted that we d*cked around over a bang average Rice who we didn't get anyway
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We already have one B2B player more suited to counter attacking sides who's struggling to make a full impact in our possession based system, we don't need another. We need a Rice esque player a lot more than a Partey esque one.

Furthermore, the success rate of players after leaving Simeone's system isn't particularly high (think we had the only two that have truly managed to improve and evolve post leaving the Argentine), 18 months ago Rodri was considered the second coming of Jesus and look at him now. Also Hernandez and Greizmann two higher profile examples.

 
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