{"id":568592,"date":"2020-10-05T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T21:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=568592"},"modified":"2020-10-05T18:20:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T22:20:17","slug":"arsenal-complete-thomas-partey-signing-from-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/05\/arsenal-complete-thomas-partey-signing-from-atletico-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Complete Thomas Partey Signing From Atletico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Transfer\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Transfer deadline<\/a> day has seen <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Arsenal\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal<\/a> finally seal a deal for <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/529f49ab\/Thomas-Partey\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Partey<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/01\/report-arsenal-midfielder-lucas-torreira-set-to-join-atletico-madrid-on-loan\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Atletico Madrid<\/a>. The Ghana international joins the Gunners for a reported fee of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1313182070080974849\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u20ac50 million<\/a> and has signed a _-year contract.<\/p>\n<h2>Arsenal Seal Deal for Long-Term Target Thomas Partey<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to the Partey! \ud83e\udd73<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc4b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Thomaspartey22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Thomaspartey22<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoThomasNoPartey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NoThomasNoPartey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/009Er2kZBK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/009Er2kZBK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arsenal (@Arsenal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/1313241301148749824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Lucas Torreira Moves in Opposite Direction<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/54423406\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Partey<\/a> is a player that Mikael Arteta has held an interest in for some time. The Ghanaian is an athletic player who can get from box-to-box. He can even chip in with the odd goal as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/52611641\/Lucas-Torreira\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucas Torreira<\/a> moves in the opposite direction on loan.<\/p>\n<h3>Release Fee<\/h3>\n<p>The release clause fee for Partey of \u20ac50 million had been a stumbling block but Arsenal feel it is a small price to pay. Atletico get the money they want and Arsenal get a much-wanted player. Atletico have remained resolute,\u00a0 so much that the release clause must be met for him to leave the club.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal have felt the pinch in regard to finances due to the Coronavirus, but their FA Cup success has helped them to pull this deal off.<\/p>\n<h3>Flying High<\/h3>\n<p>As talks progressed on transfer deadline day, Thomas Partey flew into London to finalise the details of his move to the Premier League. Atletico Madrid were keen to keep the Ghanaian but their resolve has finally been broken. With both Lucas Torreira and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/5ea8ef20\/Matteo-Guendouzi\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matteo Guendouzi<\/a> becoming surplus to requirements, Partey will play a key role for the Gunners.<\/p>\n<h3>Who is Thomas Partey?<\/h3>\n<p>Partey is a defensive midfielder who has made over 150 appearances for Atletico. In his career to date, the Ghanaian has made 258 appearances, scoring 25 goals in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Gza3RBB7Q8RkGLoCgqjGjw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1254904841\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Gza3RBB7Q8RkGLoCgqjGjw',sig:'STyCxvyAx2iTeP3vblPTAUAGoBCaS0-uBZgQZrvzKQc=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1254904841',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transfer deadline day has seen Arsenal finally seal a deal for Thomas Partey from Atletico Madrid. The Ghana international joins the Gunners for a reported fee of \u20ac50 million and has signed a _-year contract. Arsenal Seal Deal for Long-Term Target Thomas Partey &nbsp; Welcome to the Partey! \ud83e\udd73 \ud83d\udc4b @Thomaspartey22#NoThomasNoPartey pic.twitter.com\/009Er2kZBK \u2014 Arsenal (@Arsenal) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":568618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,6,30,3,28],"tags":[210,3276,2604,136],"class_list":["post-568592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-arsenal","category-la-liga","category-news","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-thomas-partey","tag-transfer-deadline-day","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}