GoonerBear
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You can't really be classing Partey the same as that, because rightly or wrongly the club had been talking to Parteys people all summer, & possibly before that they were planning to bid & would pay the release clause if they couldn't negotiate, so wages & everything would have been worked out beforehand & they got the green light much earlier that Partey would be up for coming.I can understand Lukaku's frustrations and blow-out. He clearly didn't want to leave Inter, he still had a contract there and actually wanted to extend it but instead was forced out because Inter loved the Chelsea money and didn't care about the player's feelings despite the existing contract. He was forced to go back to a club that had got rid of him a few years earlier because they thought he was shit but they have since sobered up and now realise their stupidity. Players are human, they remember these experiences. It's like Partey being told Atletico had received money from Arsenal and he must therefore pack his bags and go to London, with absolutely no consultation with the player who is the main element in the equation, the only difference being Partey happened to be an Arsenal fan growing up. I hate the brutality and heartlessness of today's money-driven football market and I'm definitely Camp Lukaku on this one.
Also, Atletico didn't want him to leave, & didn't think Arsenal had the means to pay the release clause, so they were pretty pissed by the manner of Arsenal actually eventually paying the release clause without telling the club beforehand just before the transfer window shut.