In the summer of 2019, Arsenal spent over 100 ME to bring in two Ligue 1 players with disastrous returns since.
Nicolas Pépé is struggling to win in the Gunners and often squats the bench for big games. It’s even worse with William Saliba, in the midst of a mess at the end of his loan from Saint-Etienne, who has remained at Arsenal despite Mikel Arteta not counting on him at all at first. The Spanish manager told him he would not be on the Premier League and Europa League lists, but his return to the Greens could not come through. According to ESPN, he also turned down a loan in England D2, believing he had to at least find an England top team to progress.
Nothing has been found in this direction, and this first part of the season is turning into a fiasco as Saliba goes on to play with Arsenal’s U23 team, in a league that is not very tough and which is similar to N2 in France. Until January, and the new study of a loan. At the start of 2021, the Saliba clan could look again at this solution, this time with an imperative, to join a Premier League club or a Ligue 1 formation, with obviously a thought for ASSE which is in great difficulty in its post. In the meantime, the player manages to string together games, and may still have hopes of being put on a Premier League scoresheet. If he wasn’t made the first list, he can find his way there as a young player for the club, and thus finally play his first official minutes in the Gunners jersey. This is probably the only thing that still drives a Saliba right now who still cost 25 ME and 5 ME in possible bonuses a year ago.