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A powerful defensive midfielder, he won the Europa League and appeared in the 2016 Champions League final with Atlético Madrid, and became the most expensive Ghanaian player ever when he joined Arsenal four years later for £45m. Four days after he left Arsenal for Villarreal in 2025 he was charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault relating to alleged incidents between 2021 and 2022. Partey pleaded not guilty to all those charges at Southwark crown court in September, where a trial date was set for 2 November 2026. In February of this year he faced two new counts of rape after another woman came forward to police. In April he pleaded not guilty to those two allegations of rape. His defence lawyer, Jenny Wiltshire, said: “Thomas Partey continues to deny all charges against him. 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His manager at the time, Marti Cifuentes, said: “It’s a brilliant moment from Abdul. He tries it a lot in training. He likes to look for those situations. He always pushes himself to be better.” Fatawu told the BBC: “I always try this from long range, and when I hit this one I didn’t have any doubts. 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His brother Simon always drew the focus, having captained local side Liberty Professionals and represented Ghana’s youth national teams in the late 2010s. However, Kwasi truly upstaged him after helping Real Oviedo to secure La Liga promotion for the first time in 24 years. Not that Simon has conceded supremacy, though. “When I come down for holidays, Simon still trains me,” says Kwasi. “He is still my coach, and every now and then, he will teach me a trick or two! But me playing for Ghana is the fulfilment of a family dream. 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His debut came last November in a 2-0 loss to Japan in the Kirin Cup. A solid shot-stopper with quick reflexes, he was born in Accra but moved to England with his family as a teenager. “My parents both went abroad at different times to get a better life for our family,” he said in 2024. “My dad was an electrician and went to the US, but he has now retired, then my mum moved to the UK to work first as a cleaner, then she did a nursing course and worked in a care home for people with dementia. I lived with my grandparents and my one sister and two brothers, and followed my mum here a few years later.” He signed a scholarship deal with West Ham in 2017 but did not make a first-team breakthrough in seven years there. 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He does, though, have an error in him, which is why Ghana’s coach, Otto Addo, has been through five other options in the left-back slot, trying Patrick Kpozo, Ebenezer Annan, Derrick Köhn, Abdul Fatawu Hamidu and Isaac Afful. But Mensah’s experience and positivity count for a lot. In 2019 he nearly made a dream loan move to Barcelona, to be deputy to Jordi Alba. When his agent told him about the offer, he recalled in 2024: “I couldn’t resist thinking about the next flight to Spain”. But the deal collapsed when news of the agreement leaked, breaching a confidentiality agreement. “The next day the news was everywhere in Ghana that Barcelona wanted me,” he told Flashscore. “But nobody knows what could happen in the future. 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He told Joy Sports last year: “The booing didn’t affect me during the match – as a professional, you learn to deal with that. But after the final whistle, as I walked to the team bus, it really sank in. It was tough to take. So I felt it was the right time to focus on my body and recover properly.” His fine form in Greece last season means he returned to the national set-up this summer in a confident mood. He spent eight years on Chelsea’s books from 2015 to 2023 but only made 23 appearances, spending most of that time on loan or in recovery having suffered two serious knee injuries. He nearly gave up after the second, in 2019. \"I said to my family I was quitting,\" he told the BBC in 2024. \"But Dr Paco [Biosca, ex-Chelsea medical director] said that he had seen other players come back and promised that if I was patient and mentally strong that I could do it too. I slept on it and then decided I wanted to fight for my career. I am grateful that football has given me a second chance. 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He played it down. “As I always say, it’s God’s plan, so I think that if I just keep putting in the performances, whatever comes will kind of reflect on where I could be, or where I should be,” he told World Soccer Talk. “For now, I’m here in Istanbul, and that’s what I’m focused on, but whatever happens is really God’s plan.” He made his Ghana debut in 2023, and said securing World Cup qualification last year was “just amazing … when I was on that pitch, and once the whistle went, I looked around me, I saw everyone's faces, I saw my family's faces … It made me feel like I was a part of something much bigger than just football. 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