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I stumbled upon this article: https://arsenaltruefans.com/2025/01/arteta-under-fire-the-controversial-decision-to-keep-playing-thomas-partey
The balance is probably the issue, it's one thing to keep having play to avoid a Mendy situation, but it's probably another to keep him as a central element of the team as if nothing is happening.
In all fairness, we signed Zubimendi from January. The second half of the season, we were ravaged by injuries and had little choice, but we'd clearly made plans for after Partey.
Somehow I even missed that Zubimendi was moving to Arsenal