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Arsenal have moved closer to signing midfielder Thomas Partey after agreeing to pay the Ghanaians’ release clause, GHANAsoccernet.com, Ghana’s leading soccer news website, can confirm.
Partey is currently in Spain awaiting the signal to receive his doctor in Madrid after the Gunners moved quickly to close the deal by failing to sign Italian midfielder Jorginho from Chelsea on loan and Houssem Aouar from Lyon.
Arteta has always admired the 27-year-old Ghanaian, but the stumbling block had always been Atlético de Madrid; the reluctance to lower the price of the players with a release clause of 45 million pounds sterling in their contract.
GHANAsoccernet.com can confirm that Arsenal’s lawyers are at the club’s Colney training ground, drawing up the final documents to be presented to La Liga.
The player has never hidden his intention to play with Arteta and it is said that he always wanted to move to London at some point in his career.
Arteta is trying to restore Arsenal as a great force in both English and European football and assured fans after the weekend’s win against Sheffield that the club was doing everything it could to improve the team ahead of the match. today’s transfer deadline.
“What I can guarantee is that we are doing our utmost to make that happen, whether we succeed or not, I don’t know,” said the Spaniard, when discussing the possibility of bringing in new signings.
“I cannot speak of the players we want but we recognize certain positions in which we think we are short. First in numbers and then adding different qualities to complement each other and that is what we are trying to do.
“I always try to be really honest and clear. Believe me, the property, the board and myself are doing everything we can to maximize the resources we have to improve the team and sustain and retain the players that are in this club so that this club is successful.
“I have 100% backing from them. They are not just words, it is reality. Whoever knows me, if it were not like that I would not say it but I say it because I feel it and it is true ”.
Partey played 35 games for Atlético de Madrid last season scoring 3 goals, but he was one of the league’s highest ball-recovery midfielders and has a growing reputation as one of the best midfielders in European football.
By Rahman Osman
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