The agents of Thomas Partey have apologised after a post which listed the Atletico Madrid star's potential next clubs appeared on their Instagram page.

The 26-year-old's future has been a hot topic of late, with Arsenal understood to be interested in signing the Ghana international.

Partey's father last week revealed his son had entered talks with the Gunners over a summer transfer - only for his agents, JJ Sports, to deny any truth in the rumours.

But the agency themselves added more fuel to the fire after posting an image - originally created by Transfermarkt - on their Instagram story asking fans to pick his next club on Wednesday.

The post - a screengrab from a Transfermarkt post - featured Manchester United, Arsenal, PSG, Bayern Munich and Juventus as Partey's potential destinations, but was deleted later in the day.

The company have now issued a statement apologising for the "unfortunate mistake" and vowed to launch an internal investigation.

The post, translated from Spanish, read: "Concerning the publication that was made today, Wednesday, April 29, 2020, on our Instagram account, regarding the future of our player Thomas Partey, from J.J. Sport Managers we want to convey that this publication was not approved by the management of the company.

"An internal investigation has been launched to find out what may have happened, we are certain that this was not intended by any of our workers and is probably an unfortunate mistake.

"The publication was removed as soon as we were aware of its existence, and the passwords to all of our social profiles have been modified to restrict access only to essential personnel.

"With this statement we want to give a little clarity to possible misunderstandings that may occur."