Thomas Partey | 12th February 2026: Charged with two new counts of rape

A signing im glad we never made, despicable human being
 
Semper Fudge said:
You knew, we knew, they knew. Disgusting to pretend otherwise.
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They knew about the allegations.

I don't know why anyone would think they knew about the charges coming when they were actively trying to get him to sign a new contract (which is in itself scummy as hell).

They're Arsenal, not the illuminati.
 
Nothing will happen to Arsenal guys. He wasnt charged with anything, they cant stop playing someone not charged. They would say they were waiting for the facts and the charge.

Now the timing factor is interesting…
 
tomaldinho1 said:
100%, there's two issues though. You are talking about the club continuing to play someone who it appears is highly likely to be found guilty whereas, for example, we were pressured/advised to drop Antony and Greenwood. That is shocking but not, sadly, unexpected given they would obviously just say we believe in the UK justice system, innocent until proven guilt etc.
The bigger issue is why the charges seem to have effectively been on ice until he loses his affiliation with Arsenal, that's a different and far more worrying thing entirely.
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You don't know that with any level of certainty.

Regarding the timing, unless we believe Arteta and an American owner (Stan Kroenke) have some sort of influence over the Metropolitan Police, and until more information comes out, the sensible conclusion is that the timing of him being charged officially is simply a coincidence (and it's fair to ask why it's taken so long for charges to be filed)
 
sullydnl said:
They knew about the allegations.

I don't know why anyone would think they knew about the charges coming when they were actively trying to get him to sign a new contract (which is in itself scummy as hell).

They're Arsenal, not the illuminati.
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Did you see how we handled the Greenwood situation vs this?
 
Three different women involved in the case. Wonder if he will get bail after the court hearing next month
 
this was footballs worst kept secret, the big question here is why he was only charged after his arsenal contract expired.
 
GoonerBear said:
I'm not here to defend Arsenal by the way before anyone thinks it, and I'm certainly not here to defend Partey. Id certainly like an explanation to Arsenals point of view here, how much of an investigation did they do into allegations, was their stance basically innocent until charged / proven guilty, etc.

I'm just saying that they were in active discussions with Partey about extending his contract only 2 weeks ago, so there's no way Arsenal do that if they had any prior knowledge that this was coming their way. As was said above, not even Arsenal are that dim.
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Because you’re run by cnuts who only cared about results rather than doing the right thing.
 
Arsenal are cnuts for continuing to play him but serious questions have to be asked as to why the Met Police allowed this to drag on and then only charge him once he's left Arsenal. The whole thing stinks.
 
GoonerBear said:
Why would Arsenal know? Would they have offered him a new contract if they knew?
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They probably didn't know he would be charged at this point, either that or both parties played in public like it was normal so he could leave unceremoniously before the charges dropped.
 
littlepeasoup said:
Proper scummy. Arsenal must be praying he gets acquitted otherwise the backlash on them will be 10 times worse.
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No it won't, they'll just say he's not their player anymore. The moral outrage from people on kicks on when it's united. It was important then that football took a back seat to the allegations but in Partey's case, football comes first apparently. It's even worse as he's been vital to their on pitch success too. Imagine where we'd be if we had Greenwood playing for us through the period where we were crying out for a goal scorer?
 
GoonerBear said:
Why would Arsenal know? Would they have offered him a new contract if they knew?

MOD EDIT: The poster is speaking about the charges being made rather than the allegations.
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Don’t do this, mate. You know as well as I do that they knew. Don’t drag yourself down to protect something you know is wrong.
 
Arsenal are disgusting. Anyone defending them need to take a long hard look at themselves in the mirror.
 
RedStarUnited said:
Nothing will happen to Arsenal guys. He wasnt charged with anything, they cant stop playing someone not charged. They would say they were waiting for the facts and the charge.

Now the timing factor is interesting…
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Since when?

As campaigners have pointed out, in most professions you get automatically suspended if there are these sort of allegations.

Footballers get left out of the team for missing training sessions, and you think they can't get left out when they are facing multiple rape allegations?

As per Dino Nocivelli, a partner with Leigh Day who has worked on similar cases:

"The player should have been suspended while his football club and the Football Association investigated the allegations, with no prospect of resuming his work until the investigations were concluded"
 
Devil_forever said:
No it won't, they'll just say he's not their player anymore. The moral outrage from people on kicks on when it's united. It was important then that football took a back seat to the allegations but in Partey's case, football comes first apparently. It's even worse as he's been vital to their on pitch success too. Imagine where we'd be if we had Greenwood playing for us through the period where we were crying out for a goal scorer?
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There has been plenty of "moral outrage" over Partey. The only difference is that one club decided to bend to it. The other decided to get full use out of their asset who at the time was not criminally charged with an offense. Real Madrid is currently fielding a player who is at least alleged to have committed a sexual offense, and they are the biggest club in the world. So it's not a matter of the media playing favorites.
 
Classless club. Classless manager. What a pathetic little football club.
 
"Once again, it will be us fans who suffer. The club have got this all wrong. So so wrong."

Just had a quick look on Arsenal Mania and this was the first comment I saw. Yes Arsenal fans are the true victims here.

A lot of fans in general need to take a long, hard look in the mirror when it comes to what they are willing to ignore if someone is a good player. I am pleased for the victims, I cannot imagine how awful it would have felt to watch this drag on for years whilst he was celebrated in the public eye.
 
RedStarUnited said:
Nothing will happen to Arsenal guys. He wasnt charged with anything, they cant stop playing someone not charged. They would say they were waiting for the facts and the charge.

Now the timing factor is interesting…
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Plenty of clubs have suspended players without formal criminal charges
 
They kept playing a rapist. And won feck all. A disgrace and a banter club at the same time.
 
Dreadful from Arsenal, clearly a club with no morals. Look how differently the Greenwood situation was dealt with by United, some things are more important than football.
 
What a disgusting shameful club Arsenal are. Everyone from the top down to Lego Pep are scumbags, for continuing enabling him to play.

Absolutely outrageous.
 
This is proper disgusting. Everyone knew about it and knew for a very long time. Arsenal continued to play him even through the allegations.

It feels like a very pally pally deal has gone on here between the seniors at the Met and Arsenal football club. It seems that Arsenal (probably) haven't done anything wrong, but this is the sort of thing where questions should be asked at PMQ.

Saying they probably haven't done anything wrong... If there are any senior guys from the Met who've been getting corporate hospitality at the Emirates lately, I'd be trying my best to keep my head down.
 
Continuing to play him all this time is bad enough, but trying to negotiate a new contract with him just says that they didn't care about this at all. You just can't defend that and serious questions need to be asked of both the club and manager.
 
They continued to play him because it was more important that their two title challenges weren't interrupted (at a time when they were short on midfielders) than it was to take a moral stance as a club based on principle.

Arteta can f**k himself, the lego looking motherfecker.
 
sullydnl said:
Since when?

As campaigners have pointed out, in most professions you get automatically suspended if there are these sort of allegations.

Footballers get left out of the team for missing training sessions, and you think they can't get left out when they are facing multiple rape allegations?

As per Dino Nocivelli, a partner with Leigh Day who has worked on similar cases:

"The player should have been suspended while his football club and the Football Association investigated the allegations, with no prospect of resuming his work until the investigations were concluded"
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Not until you are charged criminally, or there is damning evidence in the public domain (which there hasn't been, seeing that it took years for an official police force to finally charge him)

And on the second bolded point, the FA is barely competent at their primary job of looking after football affairs. Now we want them investigating charges of sexual assault against players? I think that's a job best left for the police.
 
Paul778 said:
This is proper disgusting. Everyone knew about it and knew for a very long time. Arsenal continued to play him even through the allegations.

It feels like a very pally pally deal has gone on here between the seniors at the Met and Arsenal football club. It seems that Arsenal (probably) haven't done anything wrong, but this is the sort of thing where questions should be asked at PMQ.

Saying they probably haven't done anything wrong... If there are any senior guys from the Met who've been getting corporate hospitality at the Emirates lately, I'd be trying my best to keep my head down.
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Sounds like an FOI is needed.
 
sullydnl said:
Since when?

As campaigners have pointed out, in most professions you get automatically suspended if there are these sort of allegations.

Footballers get left out of the team for missing training sessions, and you think they can't get left out when they are facing multiple rape allegations?

As per Dino Nocivelli, a partner with Leigh Day who has worked on similar cases:

"The player should have been suspended while his football club and the Football Association investigated the allegations, with no prospect of resuming his work until the investigations were concluded"
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The only thing I'll say in defence of Arsenal is that until he was charged there's not much they could dob formally from a contract / suspension perspective. And even at that, look at Mendy and City. He sued them after he was acquitted and they have to pay him £10m or so in wages.. so it's not black and white.

However, he was a key player in Arsenal's team this season, and they've literally had him in club promos and whatnot. They club should take a lot of flak for not managing him out of the team better and it must be an uncomfortable / shameful situation for loads of Arsenal fans.
 
Devil_forever said:
Did you see how we handled the Greenwood situation vs this?
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Yes I did.

Meaning, I saw us try to keep him until public and media outrage forced our hand. Public and media outrage that only existed because he was able to be named due to the extremely public way the story came out, whereas the Partey couldn't be named.

We deserve zero credit whatsoever for the way we handled Greenwood, it was disgraceful. And I see no reason to think our club would have behaved any differently to Arsenal if we had been able to.

But given we were rightly ripped to pieces for our abhorrent handling of that situation, Arsenal should now face as much and more opprobrium for continuing to play this guy.
 
adexkola said:
Not until you are charged criminally, or there is damning evidence in the public domain (which there hasn't been, seeing that it took years for an official police force to finally charge him)
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Pretty sure there was when the rumours first began. Either one or two of the victims posted on twitter with accounts and receipts of the situation. Enough, along with being investigated to have grounds for suspending them until further notice.
 
eire-red said:
The only thing I'll say in defence of Arsenal is that until he was charged there's not much they could dob formally from a contract / suspension perspective. And even at that, look at Mendy and City. He sued them after he was acquitted and they have to pay him £10m or so in wages.. so it's not black and white.

However, he was a key player in Arsenal's team this season, and they've literally had him in club promos and whatnot. They club should take a lot of flak for not managing him out of the team better and it must be an uncomfortable / shameful situation for loads of Arsenal fans.
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The whole time Greenwood wasn't charged he was being paid, Arsenal should have done the same just sent him away until investigations cleared and then bring him back in if they did, instead they didn't do anything just continued to play him week in week out
 
What a wanker Arteta is. “He’s been through a lot”.

Sacrificed their morals to chase trophies and won nothing. They even tried to renew him but now they conveniently don’t have to deal with the fallout of having a charged rapist on the books. Arsenal done their rep some serious damage here.
 
This is one of the biggest footballing scandals in recent memory and it was completely ignored, papered over and excuses made constantly from Arsenal fans and reputable media outlets.

We all knew he was guilty, that means that the Arsenal execs, coaching team and players knew too. It's genuinely a disgusting look for them, and all of their fans that blindly defended him, which I'll happily go out on a limb and claim that most of them did. They even used the whole Greenwood saga as a form of refute.

It's quite frankly abhorrent from the club and fan base as a whole, and we as United fans know exactly what it's like to harbour someone in the club that has committed such a crime, the difference with us is that we have the humility to admit and remove the scum that did it. In typical Arsenal fashion, they form a bond of denial and then when it seemingly rises to the surface (as it always does) they have egg on their face. Denial and delusion is quite literally weaved into the clubs DNA.

It's quite scary to be honest.
 
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