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William Saliba wants to return to Arsenal in the summer and compete for a first-team place next season.
He is currently on loan with Marseille, and there had been suggestions that he wanted to make the move permanent, although with the Ligue 1 potentially facing a transfer ban, the prospect of that has become more complicated.
Saliba who was signed from Saint-Étienne in the summer of 2019 has never made a senior appearance for the Gunners. Instead, he was loaned back to his parent club in his first season, and, after spending the first part of the 2020 -2021 campaign in limbo, playing the occasional reserve game, he returned to France with Nice.
Some have suggested that Saliba, who ahs impressed in Ligue 1, is disillusioned by the way he has been treated by the North London club. However, that now appears not to be the case.
Andy is an exiled English football fan living in Cyprus. He loves all sports but football is his abiding passion, and he still has dreams every now and then about scoring the winning goal in a Wembley Cup Final, even though his playing days are long gone. He follows most major leagues, across Europe at least, and has a favoured team in each. When he’s not watching, listening, reading or downloading podcasts about football, he spend his time worrying about his beloved Arsenal.