William Saliba made his first appearance for Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium against Sevilla on Saturday. And he didn't disappoint.
The centre-back joined the Gunners from St. Etienne in 2019 for a fee in the region of £27million, but was loaned straight back to the French club. The 21-year-old then failed to make a matchday squad for any of Arsenal's Premier League games in the first half of the 2020/21 season, and was left out of the club's Europa League squad all together before being sent out on loan to Nice for the remainder of the campaign.
With the arrival of Ben White last summer it was then decided that Saliba's development would be best served by another loan, leading him to spend another season back in France, this time with Marseille, where his performances saw him named as Ligue 1's young player of the year.
