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Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta has actually firmly insisted loanee William Saliba ‘needs to return’ to the club following his effective spell with French giants Marseille, with the protector unwilling to do so.
Touted as a future star, Saliba has actually invested two-and-a-half seasons out on loan in Ligue 1 considering that signing up with Arsenal from Saint-Etienne for £27m in 2019, in spite of seeming set for a first-team development in 2020/21 prior to he was routinely left out from matchday teams.
Most just recently the 21-year-old has actually impressed with Marseille and burglarized the France team as Les Phoceens went back to the Champions League with a second-place surface.
With the season now at an end, Saliba exposed over the weekend that he wished to go back to Stade Velodrome to play in the Europe’s leading club competitors next season.
“I wish to return and play the Champions League,” he said. “I have actually never ever played in it and I wish to find it here.”
However, Arsenal boss Arteta has now poured cold water on those aspirations, telling RMC that Saliba ‘has to come back’ to his parent club and insisting that his time away from the Emirates had been down to a likely lack of game time and nothing more.
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“He needs to return,” the Spaniard said. “He has the experience and the environment essential to be competitive with us.
“We made the right decision. If he had stayed with us this year, with a match of Premier League a week, with Ben White and Gabriel, he wouldn’t have had half the playing time he had with Marseille, that’s for sure.
“For his development and what he can do next season that would not have actually been great. William wasn’t with us due to the fact that he would not have had the playing time to get experience. That’s it, there’s absolutely nothing else.”
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