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100% agreed

Mind boggling that there were creators out there calling for him to stay

This situation has always bothered me.

But how could they have known he would be charged? 🎣

I always found it shameful how Arsenal stuck by him throughout this. They aren’t alone. Other clubs have and would do similar. It’s a stain on football. Someone will still sign him.

Now lynch the cunt before he seeks refuge in Saudi

Charged, still not found guilty.

Not often I say this but this is proper bad from Arsenal

It’s an incredible own-goal to try to bring him back on a new contract while the legal matter was still outstanding if they didn’t have near-certainty today would not come.

I have seen lawyers suggest that mysteriously having him not on match day squads would have been the same thing as a publication using his name - compromising an accused person's right to anonymity until there is a charge.

In some ways, yes. The delays have surely been painful for all the victims, and exacerbated the other surrounding issues. In other ways, I hope it was done to be sure they had the best chance of conviction. So many cases don't proceed, or lose, so I hope this time makes it a bulletproof case.

we all know if he was some youth or reserve player ....they would have thrown the book at him.

Anyone know if there are legal reasons why Arsenal couldn’t suspend him after he was first arrested and investigated?

Only a year?!

Like a Bowyer moment, not great

Scored a goal?

Didn't you and @gunnerblog.bsky.social mention this in passing on an Arsecast Extra back then...that there were allegations about a player of ours but you wouldnt discuss it (for obvious reasons)?

I agree about the contract extension. But we don’t have all the details there. Maybe the offer was so low it was never a viable alternative for they player. Just saying. But I can understand why he wasn’t suspended until there was a definite court judgement.

That’s still making a decision in that direction though. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy the see him gone. I don’t want to see my club linked to that sort of behaviour but trying to play the devil’s advocate a bit, I wonder what legal implications that could have had on the club, suspending him,if any

He would have been suspended for three years...

I understand that sentiment but its not really realistic is it? Could get any accusation and suspension at any time. The club were in a bind. But they 100000% should have taken the easy out and not offered a renewal. Thats a disgrace.

Just a guess but it would make sense.

It is possible that the three different women are all wrong and Partey is right. Possible.

Not everyone…but some big Arsenal accounts eg Arseblog seem to have somehow arrived at a guilty verdict. Yes good point….all that Benzema stuff was never followed through. I believe arsenal have acted impeccably.

We aren’t the courts and don’t need to apply that same standard in coming to our opinion as individuals because we aren’t handing out custodial sentences. OJ was “innocent” in a judicial sense, but most people still wouldn’t want a family member dating him.

Makes the chaperone, sorry 'injury coach' he had to travel abroad with look pretty suspect, doesn't it.

Fair enough to resign him in that instance IMO

It’s exactly why I struggle to commit to the club anymore. The whole business of football is becoming more and more repugnant to me at the top of club level.

You can still buy the jersey with his name on back for the bargain price of £153. Fuck off Arsenal at this point

Lost so much respect for him over that

I think the club believed there was a good football reason to contemplate renewing his contract, I disagree, and feel his age, lack of pace and injury record suggest otherwise

I know that it was largely beyond the control of anyone in media to discuss, but, other than a full throated condemnation of his actions (and the club for what can only be viewed as protecting him), can we please cease any discourse about his departure being good/bad from a footballing perspective?

Do you really believe they were going to renew his contract?

As a club we usually do the right thing but the way we handled this stinks. Being aware of the investigation for so long and allowing him to continue playing, then trying to extend his contact, sets an awful message

Should we have not extended TA after he had actually spent time inside? Think you have to play it with a straight bat.

What's worse is the amount of your fans who defended him and who still are today

They both dealt with them differently to this situation. Neither covered themselves in glory in my opinion but the names of both players was in the public domain and once it was the clubs swiftly took action. However, while Parteys name wasn't "publicly" out, we all knew. Since day 1

at which point most likely; all the people who made these decisions will not be there...most of them are already gone.

And to your point, in all honesty I actually do think any celebrity who's been accused of rape by multiple women is very likely a serial rapist.

Even if he isn't guilty of rape, which personally I think is unlikely, the fact is that he has brought his employers reputation into the gutter, arsenal should have tore up his contract, or paid him off to get him away so we send a clear message of our values

This is so weird from a US perspective. In the US If the club had evidence then it would be obligated to act… If they didn’t and moved to terminate his contract based on their “feeling” or “Snapchat text images from the internet” the club would immediately be sued by the player. Genuinely confused

Under the legal system, he is innocent until proven guilty. Being charged with something doesn't prove his guilt. Would think there were legal regulations against speaking about the matter regarding possible predice. However doesn't look good for any club under these circumstances

The lessons were there to be learned following Adam Johnson at Sunderland

Given the length of time pretty much all the smoke had gone, but one wonders how much did the club actually know given how abruptly the contract talks ended

He should have been dropped once his original contract ran out.

Zubimendi and new striker announcements incoming!

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If the club had moral courage they could have dropped him. It would then have been up to him to publicly complain/sue. Guilty or innocent he was bringing the club disrepute. I’ve backed Arteta in pretty much every decision but not this one. His desire to extend makes a mockery of non negotiables.

Truth. This whole sad affair is a terrible look for us.

Didn’t realise the verdict had already been announced. Probably best to wait until after the trial before deciding the outcome.

Do you or the club know CONCLUSIVELY that Partey is guilty? Has he been trialled and found to be guilty? No. So don't jump to conclusions. Condemn as much as you like if guilty but be responsible & quiet until a verdict is made.

He hasn't been found guilty, he's been charged (not saying he won't be found guilty ofc).

By virtually every account yes we did. Was I there and did I see it myself? no. But if you want to believe that every journalist who reported it completely made it up and that we had no contact with him or his agent you go right ahead.

For what? I mean, if I had been arrested for something of that nature, my employer would not let me anywhere near my office. I don't know why AFC should be different. The protection of the people who work there is the greater need.

Because he’s been charged so it’s in the public. You can’t name people in investigations as 1. It may be unfounded and 2. Can prejudice the investigation

Yes and if that includes Arteta then so be it.

We all love the club but I'm not sure it's quite powerful enough to be influencing the timing of police charges tbh

I think it’s more they never suspended him. When Greenwood was arrested he was suspended the same day. Arsenal protected & if Partey was asking for more money because he was like I could be arrested again & Arsenal were like shut up & take what we are offering no one is going to protect you like us

Thank you for sharing this. I have followed.

I commend you for that and understand both points. You have tried to hold the club accountable. I don't think enough of us did (I include myself in this).

Think its bit more than lessons to be learned. In a just world, a number of execs would be looking for new jobs.

One can almost excuse the fact that the club continued to play him (he wasn't charged etc etc) but the renewal talks were a farce and there should be no excuses for that.

I don’t think we can reasonably say the club were blind to this, there’s no way they weren’t aware

Ah yes, the whole world knew but not his employer

It's true that timing is curious but they offered him a new contract before they withdrew it. So if they were just waiting for the contract to end to charge him, why offer him a new one. This offer should not have been made in the first place, a lot of baggage around him.

And that the manager continued to embrace+champion him, and not only play him but start him. Absolutely despicable+ I hope he’s seriously held to account for the wilful blindness he exhibited. He’ll answer no comment or deflect when asked but that doesn’t mean the q should ever stop being asked.

The thing that makes me really furious about this situation is that we profess a "one club" philosophy with the men's team and women's team seen as equal parts of one whole then we make the woman share a gym and training ground with this "alleged" scumbag.

Google has the answer for you.

My point is I agree with what you're saying, but the fact that conviction rates for rape are so infinitesimal that it suggests a wider structural problem in the judicial system around rape cases, and realistically all society as a whole.

We as fans or Arsenal as a club don’t have the power to put Partey in prison. The standards are different when it comes to our opinion and his reputation. OJ wasn’t convicted but you still wouldn’t have wanted a family member dating him.

Does this logic also apply to the victims? Are they not allow to feel he's guilty until a court says so?

Nobody has the right to play, either. Plenty of players have been stood down, not picked, sidelined or however you want to phrase it, and for things that would not be considered as serious as "under investigation for rape". It's not a punishment, just the same as denial of bail is not.

I imagine that factored in the decision to not renew him. Anyway I doubt the club will make any statement about him now because, well he's not our player anymore.

The club could have also dressed up the suspension nicely to avoid the inadvertent naming of the player - an unspecified injury with no return date, for example.