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Atletico Madrid have offered Ghanaian midfielder Thomas Partey a new deal until 2025 in the hope of fending off bids from rival clubs, including Arsenal.
The Premier League club was expressed the strongest interest so far in the 26-year-old Ghanaian.
Arsenal are yet to submit an official bid although they have made contact with the player’s agent. Partey has a release clause of €50m (£43.6m) and the Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, is keen to add him to his squad in the summer.
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Atletico’s new offer, however, would double Partey’s current salary of £65,000 a week and increase the release clause to more than €100m (£87.2m).
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According to reports, Atletico Madrid manager, Diego Simeone, is desperate to keep Partey, whose current deal runs out in 2023, at the club and has urged the hierarchy to offer him a deal that would enable him to stay.
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Partey has been with the club since 2013. Atlético are sixth in La Liga, 13 points behind Barcelona, but through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League after eliminating the holders Liverpool in the last 16.
– guardian sports
