Read that Partey went down to Ghana in May and the incident happened sometime in June. Could have returned but that feels extremely preliminary.
While the arrest was in North London, doesn’t mean a lot at this point of the off-season. Also, an ok Spurs source:
Think the tweet was merely worded in a click-bait manner, but for all the speculation towards Party & Xhaka… the Gunners do have a 3rd late twenties international, in Matt Turner
The guy who didn’t get there until the final week of June and had a baby born that same week? Not that the person isn’t a huge POS no matter who it is but that info feels like it would take him to another level of POS
Well hopefully they wouldn’t be ignorant enough to post a recorded message to the USWNT from him on a day he was arrested on suspicion of rape but we don’t think much of women in this country so maybe it’s just really on the nose
Watford just went down. There's at least one international in his late 20's playing for a WC qualified team.
It does but I think it’s pretty understandable for fans of any of the London clubs (especially North London or fans that know players live in the area) to wonder look over the info trying to figure out if it’s one of their players
Totally agree. I wasn’t criticizing the poster. I just hate the way they put it out there and it turns into this.
Agree. Though it was pretty horrifying when Mendy news dropped and they revealed it was after 4 accusations.
Okay, so 29-yr old international. That has to narrow things down. Here is strictly data (just 29 year olds, data from ESPN, easiest to sort for me), no speculation: Watford (freshly out of Prem, had to check) no players are 29 (there were just a few internationals on there). Tottenham (supposedly not from PO’K) Davies (on honeymoon), Son (in Korea), Lucas (in yesterday’s training video) Arsenal Xhaka (dad said clear), Elneny (Egypt not at WC), Partey (with team in Germany) Brentford Pinnock (Jamaica not at WC) Chelsea Ziyech (Milan actively negotiating for him, doubt that would be the case if it was him) Fulham one Jamaican 29 year old, no WC West Ham Areola (only just signed a week ago), Coufal (Czech failed to qualify for WC), Lanzini (not in Argentina’s WC plans probably) I dunno, this just has to be a non-London-club (alleged) serial rapist living or visiting London.
it seems extremely likely that the alleged player is partey imo and i think a lot of arsenal fans following this think it’s him as well from what i’ve been reading
The media reporting on this is extremely fucked up. If you can’t identify the individual then shut the fuck up.
Oof, yeah, Arsenal team reporter Chris Wheatley deletes and recants his tweet saying Partey was in Germany, correcting to say he’s in London. Ah. Fuck.
this dude initially tweeted he was in germany with the team. he then deleted that tweet a couple hours later and posted this one instead and disabled comments on it after being dragged through the mud for deleting the original tweet
Right but the whole releasing of cryptic clues leading soccer twitter to wildly speculate is what I have an issue with. I get that the libel laws in the UK are pretty strict but I just don’t see how this is helpful.
Am I crazy or didn’t the season used to start like the last week in August or even September just a few years ago? Seems like these guys get no time off.