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    Quote Originally Posted by Marc Overmars View Post
    This has been brewing in the background for a very long time and let’s just say we’ve had a stroke of luck that he isn’t our problem anymore.
    Precisely

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marc Overmars View Post
    This has been brewing in the background for a very long time and let’s just say we’ve had a stroke of luck that he isn’t our problem anymore.
    Yeah, we were definitely lucky with this, would have been the perfect excuse for another "coming 2nd" campaign.

    We should still expect a lot of blowback though from the matter....definitely more reasons for the same set of people to go on their anti-Arsenal drive.
    Last edited by 21_GOONER_SALUTE; 04-07-2025 at 02:09 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE View Post
    Yeah, we were definitely lucky with this, would have been the perfect excuse for another "coming 2nd" campaign.
    Don’t think that would have worked. We’ve all known for three years that he was a sex fiend

    Oh and who gives a fuck if people get angry with us over this. The fact is he was kept anonymous for years. We did the only thing any sensible club would have done.

    We’ve got what we want out of him, let the law deal with him now
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    My assumption is that if he had signed the extension and then been charged during the season (which now looks like what was planned), it would have been the perfect excuse by some for why we couldn't compete towards the end (obviously we'd need to suspend him and all the media brouhaha).

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    So quite likely the charge has come as a result of him leaving Arsenal where he isn’t tied to England and possibly moving to a country where they wouldn’t extradite him back to the uk

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    Also explains why his departure was never announced with the usual well wishing statement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE View Post
    It was clearly reported that we refused to increase his salary and that we were in contract negotiations ....so trying to retell that story this late in time in order to make the club smell of roses is a bit pathetic.
    I'm inclined to agree, I think there were sound footballing reasons to let him go, we could replace him with someone on lower wages and also while he stayed injury-free last saeason there's no guarantee it would have happened again.

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    I think the CPS has charged him before he leaves the country. The fact is they’ve had three years to charge him, so before that it would suggest they didn’t think they had sufficient confidence of a conviction to take it to court, yet at the same time found his accusers compelling enough not to let it drop.

    So most likely had he signed a new contract with us, he wouldn’t have been charged because an investigation would have been ongoing

    To put it bluntly, if you’ve got a player of Partey’s quality and you know he’s under investigation for serious crimes but you also know he’s protected by anonymity this whole idea that you were going to drop him is for the birds. We did the right thing from the club’s perspective.

    People whether from rival clubs or from our own club pearl clutching about this can get to fuck, we aren’t running a women’s refuge shelter. If Partey is guilty, nothing we did or didn’t do has any bearing on that fact…I’ve said many times we might want to consider cutting him loose to spare ourselves a headache if things went south. Now either we knew what was coming and decided to cut him loose, or as I think is more likely to be the case the charges have come because he’s no longer any reason to stay in England.
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    https://www.skysports.com/football/n...inancial-rules


    Clearly, adherence to UEFA FFP rules are for losers.

    No wonder Villa couldn't be bothered to offload more players. I really feel like sporting authorities everywhere are becoming a bit of a joke. Though I like the sounds coming from the Spanish FA and the way they've stopped cuddling both Madrid and Barca.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE View Post
    Yeah, we were definitely lucky with this, would have been the perfect excuse for another "coming 2nd" campaign.

    We should still expect a lot of blowback though from the matter....definitely more reasons for the same set of people to go on their anti-Arsenal drive.
    Bluesky is full of po-faced crap about it, I've no doubt the club co-operated with police or whoever if asked, that's all they can do, it's not for them to become a kangaroo court

    That said I think Arteta's comments in May were ill-advised and he'd have been a lot smarter to be more reserved about the whole thing
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