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Atletico Madrid have signed Lucas Torreira on loan from Arsenal. The Uruguay midfielder will spend the 2020/21 season at the Wanda Metropolitano. Atletico will pay a loan fee, as well as covering his wages for the season. There is an option to make the deal permanent for €20m next summer. The midfielders dropped down the pecking order with Mohamed Elneny returning to form and Dani Ceballos returning from Real Madrid for another season. And with Arsenal chasing Thomas Partey from Atletico Madrid, the club allowed Torreira and Guendouzi to head out on loan. Uruguayan Torreira, 24, has headed the other way by joining Atletico for the 2020-21 season. The Spanish giants have the option to make the transfer permanent at the end of the season. Guendouzi, meanwhile, will spend the campaign in the Bundesliga with Hertha Berlin. The pair both signed for the Gunners in 2018 under Unai Emery. Only three players made more appearances for the club than Guendouzi in his first season in North

Arsenal anchorman Matteo Guendouzi has made a switch to Bundesliga side Hertha Berlin on season-long loan deal. The 21-year-old Frenchman hasn’t played for Mikel Arteta’s side since a 2-1 loss to Brighton in June, during which he was involved in a fracas with Neal Maupay. The Frenchman has joined the Gunners from Ligue 1 outfits Lorient back in 2018, having started his career in the academy of PSG. He has played 82 games for the North London club, however, has not been in the matchday squad this campaign. He featured regularly under head-coach Unai Emery in his debut campaign back in 2018-19, playing in 33 of the Gunners 38 Premier League games. He was also a regular fixture in the side for the first half of last campaign, however, featured far less following the appointment of Mikel Arteta back in December 2019. In the game at Brighton – the Gunners second following the post-lockdown restart – he had to be pulled away from Maupay during a confrontation between both sets of play

Arsenal have been strongly linked with the signing of Atletico Madrid’s Thomas Partey throughout 2020, and finally landed their man on Deadline Day. The transfer will not have gone down peacefully in the Spanish capital, with reports claiming that we went beyond the Spanish giants to lodge our bid with the Spanish FA, before rejecting the club’s offer to take Lucas Torreira on loan, as stated on Sky Sports News Transfer Deadline Day show at 11PM citing the official tweet of Atletico. El @Arsenal deposita en LaLiga el importe de la cláusula de rescisión de Thomas Partey, que extingue de forma unilateral su contrato con nuestro club. ℹ https://t.co/WhTQbb1rhm — Atlético de Madrid (@Atleti) October 5, 2020 The Uruguayan midfielder had participated in a medical over the weekend, expected to complete his move before the window closed, while Atleti were said to be in need of moving a member of their squad on before completing the move. We were then said to have triggered Partey’s releas