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Arsenal will transfer center-back William Saliba to championship Brentford, according to reports.
The Gunners signed the 19-year-old defender from Saint-Etienne for £ 27 million last summer, and the deal indicated that he would remain with the Ligue 1 squad for another season.
However, injuries limited his progress before the French league was canceled last season due to the coronavirus pandemic, but fans of the North London club were excited at the prospect of seeing him on the Gunners’ bottom line. this season.
But according to ESPN, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta believes he needs to develop further before he can hope to enter the first team at Emirates Stadium.
The report claims that the Spaniard wants the Frenchman to focus particularly on improving his defense from set pieces and also to work on maturity in his game, which means not tackling.
Watford is also reportedly considering an offer before the October 16 deadline between Premier League and EFL clubs to make deals.
Saliba made just 15 appearances with Saint-Etienne last season, as he suffered a metatarsal fracture in November of last year that kept him out for a couple of months, before the Covid-19 outbreak hit.
Arteta had made clear earlier this month that Saliba, who was also left out of Arsenal’s 25-man Europa League squad for this season, still needs a transition year.
Speaking after Arsenal beat Liverpool on penalties in the Carabao Cup, Arteta said: ‘He had last year where Arsenal essentially loaned him out to Saint-Etienne and that was a transitional year for him.
‘For many reasons, that was not the transition year he needed because he had a lot of injuries, he had some personal problems and obviously with COVID and the French league canceled, he did not have that year, so he needs that transition year.
“He needs that transition year and we are trying to make the right decisions so that he makes the best transition year possible so that he has the player we want for our future.”
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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