William Saliba has been one of Arsenal’s most successful loanees in this campaign and that is great news.
The Frenchman has still not kicked a ball for the club since he joined in 2019.
He has spent the last three seasons primarily on loan at Ligue 1 sides after Mikel Arteta maintained he was not at the level required to thrive in the Premier League.
He is currently at Olympique Marseille and the Ligue 1 side has enjoyed his talents.
They would love to keep him permanently, but Arsenal wants him to remain on their books and become a key member of their squad next season.
L’Equipe via The Sun says the Gunners see him as a key member of their first team in the future.
However, they are still open to cashing in on him, but only for the right price.
The report claims the Gunners will sell him if any of his suitors offer them more than the £27million they paid to sign him.
The 20-year-old is one of the promising players in European football now and he has so many more years to develop and become a world-class player.
Ideally, we need to keep him at the club, and he will want to spend some time with our first team before leaving.
However, if Arteta keeps ignoring him on his return, we might lose him to another club soon.
I think the universally shared opinion amongst the fanbase is that we all want Saliba to be apart of the squad next season however, to an extent that could be taken out of our hands and that boils down to whether he agrees to a contract extension, with only two years remaining on his current deal.
If he doesn’t accept new contract sell for 50m plus
100% we cannot afford to lose out on such an asset like him and for once I believe we can actually demand an astronomical fee given his soaring reputation thanks to his performances for Marseille. So should he refuse to extend, cash in and bring in Tapsoba who we were heavily linked with last summer and is doing very well with third place Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga
An opinion dressed up as a report.
I seriously doubt Arsenal or Arteta would never reveal their plans in public…
So Arsenal’s asking price for William Saliba has *not* been revealed.
If he doesn’t extend his contract, which I’d understand why, then he needs to be sold immediately. Considering his age and reputation I think we should comfortably get 50-60 mil for him.
The potential problem I see if he doesn’t sign is that clubs will know we are “desperate” to sell and also that the player obviously doesn’t want to be here which would definitely lower the revenue we get.
Overall this is just an opinion and not a report on the asking price.
So a paper claims to know the price The Arsenal are willing to sell him for 😂😂. A player, just like a house, car or anything that’s available to be sold, is only worth what someone is willing to pay.
Yes said player is getting rave reviews in a lesser league, but his reviews and ratings in the EL leave a lot to be desired. Imo Arteta was right to loan him out again this season.
The way that |White and Gabriel played against Watford , we need to think very carefully about selling Saliba .
White played very well apart from one error and Gabriel had one bad game game. Have you never had a bad day?
Another made up story against the Gunners !! Arteta said he is not for sale and will be given his chance for first team football next season !! So more lies by the pointless media !! lol
I’m incredibly interested in how the whole Saliba gig will play out…if we’re only looking for someone to match our original outlay, then a move elsewhere will almost assuredly come back to haunt our club…that said, it wouldn’t surprise me whatsoever in that, unless your name is Xhaka, if you butt heads with our manager, for whatever reason, an excommunication of some sort is likely in the cards