{"id":571226,"date":"2020-11-04T10:26:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=571226"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:37:44","slug":"william-saliba-could-move-away-from-arsenal-on-loan-arteta-fed-up-with-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/11\/04\/william-saliba-could-move-away-from-arsenal-on-loan-arteta-fed-up-with-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"William Saliba Could Move Away From Arsenal On Loan – Mikel Arteta ‘Fed Up’ With Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Saliba<\/a> could leave Arsenal<\/a> on loan in the January transfer window. Manager Mikel Arteta has admitted he is ‘fed up’ with the situation surrounding the 19-year-old defender.<\/p>\n

William Saliba Loan Move Likely to Appease Both Player and Club<\/h2>\n

Defender is Yet to Play a Single Minute of Senior Football For Arsenal<\/h3>\n

Saliba made the move to Arsenal from Ligue 1 side Saint-Etienne in 2019 for a fee of \u00a327 million. He then spent the 2019\/20 season on loan at the French side as part of the deal.<\/p>\n

He joined Arsenal’s squad properly at the start of this season<\/a>. Many expected him to form part of a new-look defence, along with fellow new signing Gabriel Magalhaes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That has been far from the case. Saliba is yet to feature in an Arsenal shirt – and wasn’t even registered in the club’s Europa League squad.<\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of Arsenal’s Europa League match against Molde, Arteta told reporters<\/a> he has lost patience with the circumstances regarding Saliba’s lack of game time: “I am fed up with the situation, because as you could see we tried to find a way in the last few days [of the transfer window] to give him some football.<\/p>\n

“I explained that he needed that transition year when we decided to buy him and send him on loan to Saint-Etienne, for many reasons that didn\u2019t happen, he didn\u2019t have that transition year and he needs to go through that.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment, with the amount of central defenders that we have in the team we had to leave him out of the squad which is painful because we have some injuries and we could have used him, but it\u2019s part of this profession.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arteta was asked whether or not Saliba could move on loan in the upcoming transfer window. The Spaniard replied:<\/p>\n

“Yes. We certainly tried in the last few days of the transfer window to find the right club and we had it, but at the end of the day we could not make it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will review his situation in the next few weeks, sit down with him as well and see what is the best thing to do. But it will depend on him and other players\u2019 situations as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saliba’s prospects of game time are slim at the moment. He is currently behind David Luiz<\/a>, Gabriel, Rob Holding<\/a> and Shkodran Mustafi<\/a> in Arteta’s plans for his defence.<\/p>\n

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