Arsenal has made a significant stride in their summer activities by securing William Saliba’s commitment to a fresh four-year contract, as announced by Fabrizio Romano in the last hour on Twitter….
🚨 EXCL: big day for Arsenal as William Saliba signs his new long term contract valid until June 2027.
It’s finally done and sealed.
Saliba accepted the proposal in June — documents are finally signed, today is the day.
It will also include an option until 2028.
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— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) July 6, 2023
The talented French defender has been in talks with the club after a remarkable season, and there were initial concerns about his future when he turned down an initial contract offer, which reportedly caught Arsenal off guard due to his lofty demands.
Saliba’s impressive performances for Arsenal in the previous season had left fans anxious, as negotiations dragged on without a breakthrough. However, the persistence of both parties has paid off, culminating in the successful conclusion of a new deal. This development signals Arsenal’s commitment to retaining the young defender and capitalizing on his potential.
Saliba, who joined Arsenal in 2019, is highly regarded for his technical abilities, composure, and defensive prowess. Despite not featuring prominently for the Gunners in recent seasons, he showcased his talent during loan spells at Saint-Étienne and Nice. Arsenal is optimistic about Saliba’s long-term prospects and is keen to integrate him further into their future first-team plans.
Arsenal are now certainly building a quality squad capable of challenging for domestic and European honors in the upcoming season and for many years to come.
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The most important bit of business completed. So glad!
Have to agree, Jen 👍. Massive boost for the club in the coming season!
IT’S OFFICIALLY ON THE WEBSITE 👍👍👍👋👋👋
Yeah,great interview,his English has improved so much,did you notice his “everyffing”?😂
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It is indeed the most important part of the business this summer.
One more to go.
Keep Partey for at least one season.
Timber’s signing suggests to me that Saliba’s passing ability was sorely missed when Holding came in to replace him. Being able to build from the back is a major trait in this AFC setup. Timber looks good with the ball and he takes the ball forward with dribbling and passing to a decent standard. Also, we play a deeper line more often when Holding plays so I think Timber will have pace and more ability to play a bit higher up the pitch.
I agree, I don’t think holding is a bad defender, it’s just that he has some weaknesses, and those weaknesses forced us to change slightly, probably not by design.
Ornstein said no option for further year but I’ll be glad if there is. Great talent, good job getting him to sign. Now please don’t bench him.
Ornstein has said a lot of things that are nothing more than speculative crap.
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Speculative crap….. wtf….. 😂😂😂
I hope we can rely on Kiwior to be his backup
So far nothing on the Arsenal app but will be delighted if WS has signed
Kiwior is probly not his backup Timber is or white.. we must not overload him and Saka as was done last season..
This journalist has claimed an awful lot of things are going to happen – and made big claims that would be announced today.
So far nothing.
Only when the club announces the signing of new contracts or new players will I believe it.
In fact, Romano and Ornstein are no more “on the pulse” of breaking Arsenal news stories than anyone on this forum.
The media just spout crap – the Mbappe rumours being the most amusing..
But Mbappe wants to play for Arsenal if he comes to the premier league…😊
Fabrizo is the most reliable journalist out there. And he hasn’t said anything about mbappe wanting to play for arsenal, or maybe you can show me where he said that.
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There’s no chance he’d come to Arsenal but he has been quoted as saying that IF he played in the Premier League he would want to sign for us. The Metro plus there are other outlets reporting it. Definitely a non story
Indeed he does. And we are going to pay him his usual £1m a week in wages as a good gesture 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There was a quote from one of Fabrizio’s tweets that said “He only wanted to stay at Arsenal.” This was despite approaches from other clubs.
What? but but the expert on here said Saliba hates arteta and will not renew because he mistreated the boy. Must be a fake video.
But but most of our players can’t stand Arteta. He is an authoritarian. Most of the players can’t wait to leave. He mistreated Saliba and all our personal favourites that have been forced out of the club throughout the last 3 and a bit years.
One even promised that he had some private In The Know information pertaining to the likes of Gabriel and Saliba pushing for moves away from Arteta’s dictatorship.
😊🤞
I think most are starting to realize some of you feed on this anti Arteta war. You seem to bring it all the time.
What if they said it? And do you think Saliba signed for the love of Arteta?
More like calling out some people who love to spew bs and when something finally sticks, run around with i told you so. Remember when Gabi, ESR were leaving. Hell at this point even tierney looks like staying.
@HH
So you guys think you can make all kinds of ridiculous sensationalistic claims and statements throughout the seasons but expect to not be called out in time?
You want to have your cake and have it too. Isn’t it?
All I am trying to do is get to people to stop making ridiculous statements out of emotion at any given time. That kind of nonsense is likely to always come back to haunt you.
And we don’t know the actual reasons Saliba signed, Saliba and his family/ agent know that.
But he definitely did not sign because of his “Hate, disdain and Dislike for Arteta” like some of you led us to believe for the majority of Arteta’s tenure.
He definitely did not sign a new contract because he thought Arteta was a poor at man management. Did not sign a new contract because he thought Arteta was a sh!t manager that does not improve players like Brendon Rodgers and will never be as good as Brendon blah blah…
Ridiculous sensationalistic nonsense like that.. 🤷♂️
If they said it they get called out on it. Especially, if what they spout are unfounded negative rumours based on nothing more than personal dislike and wild speculation.
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Westham losing out on Harvey Barnes is the best news of the evening for me! Sullivan &Co spent the best part of the last week shithousing Edu and Garlick when they could’ve easily taken the 105 deal and used part of the first installment on a coveted target who was really interested in the move!
😂🤣🤣.
I’m also one who worried that Saliba would flee the coop because of his treatment by Arteta. But he has resigned which means that he believes in the project and sees his best interests at Arsenal, so great news for us fans.