William Saliba has publicly declared he wants to stay at Marseille next season, where he will have the chance to play in the Champions League.
Having signed for Arsenal in a deal worth £27million in the summer of 2019, there were high hopes for the young Frenchman, who was subsequently allowed to return to St. Etienne on loan. But having failed to earn the kind of minutes the Gunners had hoped for, he was left out of their Premier League and Europa League squads for the following campaign.
Saliba then spent the following year with Nice, before Mikel Arteta sanctioned another loan move to Marseille at the start of this season. "I know that sometimes it’s difficult to explain or understand after the money that the club has spent trying to bring him in, to send him on loan. But a lot of things have happened to him," Arteta said of the decision to allow him out on loan.
