It's not so long ago that any suggestion of Arsenal going into a season without Thomas Partey would have triggered a meltdown among some supporters.
However, recent reports claim that the Gunners are open to cashing in on the midfielder during the summer transfer window and this stance simply highlights that so much can change within a year and that Mikel Arteta may have already foreshadowed what's to come for the Ghana international.
Now, when Arsenal's top-four hopes collapsed at the end of the 2021/22 season, much of it was attributed to the absence of Partey (and to a lesser degree Kieran Tierney) as he was in arguably the best form of his career prior to sustaining a thigh injury and there was no replacement of equal quality.
