William Saliba: Here to Stay ✍️

[GeorgiaGunner]

2/5 contract years wasted nice

2/5 so far

 

[lufere7]

Hopefully this is an actual roadmap to getting him to the first team and not just a loan to appease him and then sell him in the summer. We are finally in a position were we could stop worrying about the CB position for a while.

You'd be looking at Gabriel starting with a decent backup in Mari and Holding starting but Saliba on his toes with the hope of usurping him sooner or later. That could've started this season with the UEL group stage/cups but we blew it, hopefully we could still make it work next season.

 

[shoot for the top]

We really all know Saliba is very talented but i can understand we not rushing him specially the club said he had so challenging 2020 he still 19 years he'll be here for many years.

Rushing? Wrong word there buddy. He hasn't played a single minute of football for us.

 

[field442]

Arteta has set him back one year in his development. He hasn’t played any competitive football for 10 months so he has every right to be ****ed off. Hopefully there’s no animosity there and he can come back and be part of the squad next season.

 

[krengon]

He's going to push for a move away in the summer, I'm convinced.

we'll need him to renew soon too and unless something changes drastically that's not happening.

 

[Dodero]

I'm getting tired of Arteta loaning out some of our best young players instead of developing them here.

 

[field442]

...ArsenalPhilly backing the club here!

This is a **** take though. He has been playing regularly for a Ligue 1 side since he was 17, he’s widely regarded as the best CB for his age group in France and we have a lot of very bad defenders lacking any talent. There’s no real explanation as to why he could legitimately be left out, especially when some of the CBs playing instead of him won’t be here in six months. What has happened to him is the equivalent of us getting a new manager tomorrow and that manager deciding Saka shouldn’t be in the squad.

 

[Garrincha]

maybe dont give him the #4 shirt day one as well

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

I'm glad he'll get to play. I doubt he's as jitter inducing as Mustafi and if we'd played him and he'd faltered, we could have told everyone that he was grieving, shocked by the physicality of the PL, injured etc and would be rested and sent on loan. "Binning" him certainly hasn't helped anyone.

 

[Riou]

maybe dont give him the #4 shirt day one as well

Arsenal: "We are giving you the squad number of our Invincible captain and French great, Patrick Vieira...we know you will do it justice."

Saliba: "Unbelievable feeling, I can't wait to play for this club!"

Arsenal: "Play...getting a little ahead of yourself, don't you think?"

Saliba: ...

 

[A_G]

Edu out

 

[Melquiades]

Edu out

What on earth. How does that make any sense?

If you're done with the guy and have no plans for him, sell him now, get your 30 million or whatever back, and invest it in a new player that you do believe in.

Or play him and integrate him into the team.

Dicking around with 18 month loans accomplishes less than nothing. It shouldn't even be a discussion point.

 

[GDeep™]

Something dodgy is going on, can’t put my finger on it.

Or it could just be a good old car crash where we’re just c0cking this up.

 

[berric]

Edu out

The whole thing feels like a social experiment.

 

[Jae]

2/5 contract years wasted nice

To be fair... You're forgetting that the first year on loan was a condition of sale implemented by St Etienne.

 

[Trilly]

Did anyone watch him in France, even just for one game?

That report 10 pages back makes it sound like playing him in the PL would be an absolute calamity. I know Ligue 1 is weaker but wtf?

 

[Wryer]

This is a offence worthy of a sack in any organization, including the grocery store down my street.

What a ridiculous shamble. He's not coming back whether he turns out world class or absolute garbage. We've dropped 30mn straight down the drain.

 

[Melquiades]

This is a offence worthy of a sack in any organization, including the grocery store down my street.

What a ridiculous shamble. He's not coming back whether he turns out world class or absolute garbage. We've dropped 30mn straight down the drain.

This whole thing has been a bizarre mess with a lot of unanswered questions that reflects poorly on management, but if we sold Saliba tomorrow we'd almost certainly get most or all of that money back. Maybe even more. It may end up being an expensive blunder on the pitch, but it won't end up being an expensive blunder at the bank.

 

[Jack_the_boy]

I saw him twice for the u23’s and both times he was very poor. I expect talented centrebacks to be bossing it at that level. I’m not saying he won’t improve and become good in the future but based on what little I’ve seen of Saliba I don’t understand the hype at all.
The loan move should do him a world of good.

 

[Olivier_Giroud]

Another youngster that Arteta is burning bridges with. Saliba is not coming back. Arteta is such an insecure little man that he prefers Chelsea retirees than prodigies who he feels will threaten his little bubble.