Thomas Partey undroppable no more?
What a difference a year makes. When Arsenal's top-four hopes collapsed at the end of last season much of it was attributed to the absence of Thomas 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.
As a result, the task for Mikel Arteta and Edu last summer was to bring in cover for the Ghanaian to avoid a repeat. Whilst that never materialised they did manage to sign Jorginho in the January transfer window but even with that deal the general consensus was he was nothing more than a backup player.
