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Edu, Arsenal’s technical director, has revealed that Thomas Partey was part of a long-term hiring plan that began seven months ago.
The Gunners secured the 27-year-old player’s services on the transfer deadline after activating his € 50 million buyout clause.
Party is arguably Arsenal’s biggest transfer of the summer, but Edu insists the process took a long time to complete.
“One day I would like to show the fans how we work, or how we work, because if they saw my plan six or seven months ago when I did it with Mikel (Arteta), Thomas was already there,” he told the club. website.
“You see how many months we had to try to find the right player for the club.
“So many things to do, so many meetings, we had to see how we were going to buy the player, if we had the financial situation to buy the player, the legal process, the financial process, talk to the player, talk to the agent, so there is a lot of things around this, but in the end we did it! “
Partey is currently with his Ghanaian teammates in Turkey for international friendlies against Mali and Qatar.
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