Arsenal pulled off the biggest transfer on deadline day by paying £45m to release Thomas Partey from his Atletico Madrid contract, so how do the midfielder’s stats stack up?

Numbers are either totals or average where common sense dictates
- Appearances: 206
- Minutes: 13,311
- Goals: 19
- Assists: 10
- Yellows: 53
- Reds: 1
- Shots-per-game: 0.9
- Percentage of shots from outside the box: 70
- Key Passes: 0.6
- Average number of passes: 37.9
- Pass success %: 83.2
- Crosses: 0.1
- Long balls: 2.5
- Through balls: 0.029
- Aerials won: 1.2
- Tackles: 2.1
- Interceptions: 1.5
- Fouls: 1.1
- Fouled: 0.8
- Offsides: 0
- Clearances: 0.9
- Dribbles: 1.2
- Dribbled past: 0.9
- Blocks: 0.2
- Dispossessed: 0.7
- Bad control: 0.8
- Own goals: 1
- MotM: 18
- Average rating: 6.95
Note: Partey’s average rating has trended upwards and his early years bring his figure down. For 20/21 so far he is rated at 7.09 while for 19/20 it was 7.08 in La Liga, but 7.55 in the Champions League.