Imagine being a fly-on-the-wall in those Thomas Partey meetings.

When club officials had to discuss the rape allegations against one of their key players. If they had the meetings, of course. You presume they did. But we don’t know for certain.

In fact, we know very little about what Arsenal did or didn’t do when they learned several years ago that their £45m signing was arrested and questioned by police following accusations of rape , which he denies, and remained under investigation for the remainder of his contract.

But say they did have meetings: who was involved? What did they weigh up? Did they list the pros and cons of keeping him?

There are so many questions for Arsenal around decisions that were made during the years that Partey was under investigation while continuing to he

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