William Saliba will make his second debut for Arsenal in their pre-season friendly against Everton on Saturday, football.london understands. The French centre back joined the Gunners from St. Etienne in 2019 for a fee in the region of £27million, but is still yet to play a senior competitive match for the club.
Following his initial signing he was sent back out on loan to St. Etienne for a season but returned early after the 2019/20 Ligue 1 season was suspended due to COVID-19. Upon his return he did feature in a pre-season friendly fixture against MK Dons and was an unused substitute in the Community Shield victory over Liverpool.
However, after that the 21-year-old 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.
