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- Arsenal defender William Saliba has signed for Nice on loan for the rest of the season. The 19-year-old joined the Gunners from Saint-Etienne for £27m in 2019 before being loaned back to the French top-flight club.
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Apr 13, 2021 · However, underneath the cheap punchline is a much deeper and more important story for William Saliba, who has played a critical role in Nice’s revival this season. It speaks volumes that they...
Jan 5, 2021 · Nice manager Adrian Ursea has backed William Saliba to be a valuable addition for the second half of the club’s campaign and says the defender’s qualities and ‘personality’ shone through...
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Jun 12, 2023 · By James McNicholas. Jun 12, 2023. In tying William Saliba down to a new contract, Arsenal have arguably secured the future of one of the finest centre-halves in England. But this is a player...
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Aug 26, 2022 · Who is William Saliba, and how did he arrive at Arsenal? William Saliba is a 21-year-old French defender who plays for Arsenal. While he only seized his place in the Gunners’ starting 11 at the beginning of the 2022-23 campaign, he’s technically belonged to the London club for a while now.
- Woeful Form
- Tension Around The Club
- Patchy Transfer Record
- History with Young Talent
- Pressure on Saliba
As one Arsenalname comes in at Nice, one goes out. Patrick Vieira - who so elegantly patrolled Arsenal's midfield during the club's golden era in the late 1990s and early 2000s - missed out on the chance to manage Saliba after getting sacked at the start of December. Vieira, who led the team to seventh and fifth place finishes in his first two seas...
Things aren't great off the field either. The club's fans voiced their displeasure with the club's woeful form by blocking the team bus from travelling to a Europa League group stage match in December. The bus did eventually leave, but may have been better off staying - Nice limped out of the competition with five defeats from six games. Unrest has...
The new owners - the chemical company INEOS, owned by British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe - have overseen a spending spree since taking charge. Nice boasting the third-highest net spend in Ligue 1 - behind Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain - since the summer of 2019. However, the players that have joined have endured mixed fortunes, with many more c...
Worryingly for Arsenal, Nice’s once impressive reputation for promoting young players has dwindled in recent years. Stanley Nsoki, once a hugely promising left-back - and one of the players reportedly involved in that training ground kerfuffle - has been putting in increasingly error-strewn performances this term. While the exciting centre-back Mal...
Unfortunately, the 19-year-old hasn’t even played a minute and is already being framed as the club’s saving grace. Nice’s coach wasted no time in painting Saliba as a defensive linchpin, with Ursea telling the club's website: "He can bring a lot of things to us, defensively, and in terms of our game plan, and the way we play the ball out from the b...
William Saliba’s first full season in the team was a triumph, and he was duly named in the Premier League Team of the Season at the 2022/23 PFA Awards. As the defender tells us, he’s come a long way from the raw talent he displayed as a boy in Bondy, Paris.
Jun 14, 2024 · William Saliba did not miss a minute of league action for Arsenal in 2023-24 but he could find himself on the bench for France at Euro 2024.
