Fuuuuuuck.
Nice, Xhaka and Elneny for the first half of the season. Fantastic.
Think I will wait for this to be confirmed.
Apparently, Samuel Zigah is Parteyâs spokesman.
Hopefully a Wheatley or Watts confirm the extent of the injury tomorrowâŚ
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Maybe it will force us out into the market?
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Might aswell through Lokonga in the deep end
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Arteta sacked in October 
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So what heâll be back just in time for ACN in January? 
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My hopes are very low, because we donât need a big squad, but if they donât go out and buy a midfielder if Partey is out for a significant amount of time, itâs gone beyond even my wildest accusations as to how bad/inept this club have become.
I think whatâs going to happen is we will probably just look in house for solutions. Torreira will stay and play, Xhaka clearly going nowhere, and if shit really goes bad youâll see Aziz.
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Fuck what a mess. Insanely talented player and huge coup for a club in our state but just unlucky heâs made of fucking glass ever since moving to England.
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Thatâs what I was saying yesterday. Back in time to leave, comes back from AFCON exhausted and we donât see him play properly until March. Another wasted season.
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Yeah so 2 seasons in his prime as a 27 and 28 year old are a dead duck. Sadly itâs a flop of a transfer, not due to the quality of the player but because he canât get on the park.
Hey look on the bright side, at least Xhaka and Elneny are durable 
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Unlucky but something completely avoidable. The risk of this was buying a player of his age with all the miles on his legs for that big chunk of cash. Analytics ppl said it wasnât smart at the time and we could have spent the money more wisely. This is going to keep happening as long as the club continue to have this inflated view of themselves, need be conscientious of the situation.
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Yup.
Paid big money for a guy in his prime at the absolute start of a rebuild project. Didnât make sense at the time and looks worse now.
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Nah thatâs bullshit, Partey is baller and we did right going for the best DM on the market at the time. I know youâre in full on Nostradumbass mode these days but heâs 28, twenty fucking eight. People acting like we bought him at 35 with a history of bad knees.
People seem to think that anyone over the age of 27 in football these days is legally dead.
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It was a risk though. Spending really big on a prime age player coming from another league and a very specialized system at Atletico.
We needed creativity and goals from midfield last summer too.
We wound up signing Partey and not Auoar.
And a year later we havenât really seen Partey.
Edit: I think @Electrifying summed it up better than I did. Itâs not the player, itâs how we failed and to take care of him.
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main issues is Arteta using and abusing him because he doesnât trust Elnenny and Xhaka, but the confused guy demanded they not be sold.
Rushed him back from injuries, aggravating them.
Just remember, before he came to this cancerous disgusting club, he had never been injuried for atleti or something.
Like there were no concerns whatsoever with his injury record.
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The main reason youâre against this transfer is because you spent all last summer saying it would never happen, we couldnât afford it etc etc. Boring.
Youâre always better with players like Partey at the club than without. Realistically heâs the only midfielder we have apart from this young Belgium lad that I would mind if they got blasted towards the moon tomorrow.
Having Partey doesnât suddenly stop us from chasing Guimares, Loactelli or any of the other CMâs we have been linked with, people are so one track mind at the moment that they look for any opportunity to beat the club down. Itâs not like we havenât had injuries in the past, Santi Cazorla one of our best players of the Emirates era nearly lost his fucking foot, still doesnât mean he was a bad signing.
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