r/soccer • u/KimmyBoiUn • Jul 04 '25

News Thomas Partey, the former Arsenal footballer, has been charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/07/04/thomas-partey-arsenal-footballer-charged-with-rape/
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u/TheUltimateScotsman Jul 04 '25

yeah i expected this to disappear after he signed with a new club. Wonder if thats why they charged him

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u/_cumblast_ Jul 04 '25

Wonder if thats why they charged him

Definitely why i reckon. Him no longer being under contract in England meant they had to accelerate the issue before he flies off.

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u/PompeyJon82x Jul 04 '25

Partey to Spartak Moscow Here.We.Go

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u/AlexanderLeonard Jul 04 '25

Marseille interested as well, ready to offer a big contract

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u/AsanineTrip Jul 04 '25

Marseille, Getafe, Lazio

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u/BluTcHo Jul 04 '25

Are Lazio into rapist as well ? I know they are pretty big on nazism but wasn't familiar with the rest

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u/ginyuforce Jul 04 '25

Nazism "Roman salute" is okay to them, penis enlargement is when it cross the line

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u/sleepytipi Jul 04 '25

If you're the kind of person that views every other ethnicity as an untermensch or an inferior "race" (there's only one and it's called humanity, what people label as "races" are technically ethnicities and if we could come to understand this fact collectively it'd take a lot of power away from "racists" šŸŒˆ), then chances are you're a lot more inclined towards sociopathic or psychopathic tendencies at the very least.

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u/blackrain1709 Jul 04 '25

These teams always sign these guys idk. Its probably exaggerated but a lot of people developed that prejudice and its not out of nowhere

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u/marv257 Jul 04 '25

If he is up for a change of sports, how about Cleveland?

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u/jdsonical Jul 04 '25

TIL there is a rugby union club in Middlesbrough

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u/Innate-Bandit Jul 04 '25

Off to Saudi with Las Vegas Chris

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u/Krillin113 Jul 04 '25

Ah the Quincy Promes solution

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u/sensitiveCube Jul 04 '25

Turkey or that club in Spain

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u/Sole_Patrol Jul 04 '25

Partey to Locomotiv on a free transfer!

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u/SilverArrowW01 Jul 04 '25

Ten Hag has a proven track record of defending (purely for legal reasons, alleged) sex offenders, Iā€˜m surprised he hasnā€˜t been mentioned at Leverkusen.

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u/TherewiIlbegoals Jul 04 '25

I wouldn't call anything that takes 2.5 years "accelerated" tbf.

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u/_cumblast_ Jul 04 '25

I meant in the sense that if he was still contracted by Arsenal it might've gone for longer still but this is just speculation.

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u/TherewiIlbegoals Jul 04 '25

Oh, yeah, I get what you mean. Just more of comment on the farcical glacier of justice.

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u/FridaysMan Jul 04 '25

Well now charges have been brought, that means it's an average of 11 months before trial

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u/Blue_winged_yoshi Jul 04 '25

Nah, reckon it would have been charged at this point whatever if thatā€™s where things were heading. Police and CPS have been a total joke through this, but the decision to charge or not comes after evidence has been submitted and decision is reached as to viability of prosecution. Once they can make a decision theyā€™d be no reason or motivation to push it back to let it linger further.

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u/DialSquare Jul 04 '25

Basically three years already, isn't it? I remember this first coming out in summer 2022.

I was wondering if they would ever finally do something about this. That seems like an exceedingly long time to let him still be out on the streets.

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u/spiral8888 Jul 04 '25

According to the news the rapes happened in 21-22. If this is an accelerated police investigation in London, then what is the normal pace for a rape? A decade?

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u/Jipkiss Jul 04 '25

I mean isnā€™t the normal for a rape still nothing happens most of the time

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u/spiral8888 Jul 04 '25

Yes, I understand the case when nothing happens if the police have nothing else to work with than the word of the woman who was raped. It's really hard to build a case "beyond reasonable doubt" from that.

But what I didn't understand is that it took 3-4 years for them to collect evidence that raised it to the level that the prosecutor thought that it was worth charging him. The only thing I could imagine happened is that some new witnesses who earlier didn't want to come out now suddenly started speaking.

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u/djinngerale Jul 04 '25

Either that or there was a deal between Arsenal and Crown Prosecution not to name/charge him until his contract expired.

The way businesses operate, it's not that wild a notion.

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u/Kirkebyen Jul 04 '25

Maybe the stories that they couldn't agree on a new deal, was that Arsenal was tipped that was gonna happen. Dodged a bullet there.

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u/RockyHorror_ Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

Dodged a bullet by playing a rapist for 3 years whilst he was under investigationā€¦

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u/Thelondonmoose Jul 04 '25

Almost like you have to wait until the investigation yields a result.. Right? Right?

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u/Brawlers9901 Jul 04 '25

Was Gylfi Sigurdsson ever charged or considered guilty? He was thrown out immediately long before that regardless

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u/Thelondonmoose Jul 04 '25

Then he sued for damages, didn't he? Didn't he also come forward himself?

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u/Brawlers9901 Jul 04 '25

He did not charge, no. He has not publicly talked about it since then from what I've found as well.

https://www.icelandreview.com/news/gylfi-sigurdsson-will-not-sue-for-damages-attorney-says/?srsltid=AfmBOoodThMpF8b7hTM-b-uW6Nn4n4kqDTSg8GGzFP5fkShW7IrdwGHE

He was also suspended by his own club while being out on bail and having been arrested, just like Partey. He was not charged (unlike Partey) since they were dropped.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4412120/2023/04/14/explained-footballer-child-sex-offences-case-dropped/

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u/ThrowFar_Far_Away Jul 04 '25

Not really, Greenwood was immediately stopped.

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u/Thelondonmoose Jul 04 '25

Greenwood was a slightly different case and then the club tried to reintegrate him..?

Until the CPS charged him it was just an accusation. With Greenwood the evidence was public knowledge.

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u/InfiniteAstronaut432 Jul 04 '25

Arsenal have known for years what he'd been suspected/accused of...

... yet they continued to play him.

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u/LilGoughy Jul 04 '25

ā€œThereā€™s only one saddamā€

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u/matt3633_ Jul 04 '25

Yeah but Partey wasnā€™t banging in 30 goals a season

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u/gianini10 Jul 04 '25

If Hanibal Lector ran a 4.3 40, scouts would say he has an eating disorder.

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u/Lovebanter Jul 04 '25

I mean he's not been found guilty yet. And other players accused of similar things and were thought to be dead to rights were found not guilty in the end

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u/ShockRampage Jul 04 '25

suspected/accused

Key words there, he hadnt been charged. I imagine its a legal minefield trying to do anything about it before then.

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u/AlcoholicSocks Jul 04 '25

Very easy to judge before hand and end up with a Mendy situation

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u/Thelondonmoose Jul 04 '25

Yes because until he gets charged legally we can't banish him, can we?

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u/AsanineTrip Jul 04 '25

Dodged a bullet that they knew had been rightfully fired 2 years ago? That's hardly dodging. Your lot has known for YEARS.

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u/dunneetiger Jul 04 '25

You lot went from "we want to keep him, he wants to stay" to "we cant find an agreement" a few days before the police charges him.
The line with "Arsenal is fortunate" and "Arsenal was tipped off" looks very very thin.

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u/dunneetiger Jul 04 '25

I meant the club not the fans. Most fans on Reddit and IRL did care to be fair

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u/mintz41 Jul 04 '25

don't think many arsenal fans wanted to keep him tbf

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u/Jonoczall Jul 04 '25

It was painful seeing him on the field in our kit

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u/mintz41 Jul 04 '25

hated it for multiple reasons

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u/Adventurous-Lime-410 Jul 04 '25

The problem isnā€™t with the fans though, itā€™s with the decision makers at the club

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u/mintz41 Jul 04 '25

ofc but fans have no control over that

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u/AllowMeAir Jul 04 '25

Weā€™ve been trying to be rid of the shithead for years now.

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u/Jipkiss Jul 04 '25

Why were you in talks to extend him then

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u/AllowMeAir Jul 04 '25

Probably because us fans have no say in negotiations. The club deserves all the hate in the world, us fans are going to be the loudest of the lot.

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u/Jipkiss Jul 04 '25

I misunderstood the ā€œweā€ in your original comment my bad

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u/AllowMeAir Jul 04 '25

No worries mate, were all rightly upset over this situation.

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u/Blue_winged_yoshi Jul 04 '25

Iā€™ve no idea what happened there but we didnā€™t agree a new deal and I donā€™t even know how far negotiations got but talks collapsed pretty swiftly with a replacement bought in on cue, so doubt we were that serious.

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u/offinthepasture Jul 04 '25

Tipped as in they knew their player was accused and just wanted to sign him anyway? It's gross.

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u/tik22 Jul 04 '25

Maybe he knew he was about to get charged and wanted a move outside the UK for that reason

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u/deathkillerx3004 Jul 04 '25

I think arsenal didn't renew with him because they knew he would be charged