Arsenal loanee William Saliba has been catching the eye at Nice to the extent that he has won the club’s Player of the Month award for January.
Saliba will be pleased to be enjoying the chance at first team football at Nice after feeling frustrated to yet be given his debut at Arsenal.
‘My first six months were difficult, because I was coming from six months where I wasn’t able to train because I was at home and couldn’t train outside, couldn’t play,’ said Saliba in January. ‘I arrived there as they were finishing the league season, so I was training alone. As soon as they came back from holidays, we quickly had the first friendly matches where I lacked rhythm and was a bit insufficient physically. ‘The coach immediately told me that I was not ready. I would have at least liked to have a chance to rediscover my rhythm. But this is football, it’s like that.’
Saliba awarded player of month @ Nice
posted on 6/2/21
Should facking think so too. £30m CB playing for the French equivalent of Brighton not being player of the month every month he's there, serious questions would need to be asked about his ability!
posted on 6/2/21
Cheer up gooners Saliba getting experience at Nice so will he be starting I doubt it since Arteta is very ruthless to young guns.
I can easily see Saliba and Gabriel partnership next season and Mari and Holding as backup. Luiz has to be released.
We also need new LB to compliment injury prone Tierney and a new DM (Bisouma) to compliment Partey
We also need two attackers a striker and a Attacking midfielder
posted on 6/2/21
If what I’m hearing from this side of the channel is correct, I doubt the kid will want to go back to Arsenal.
He’s still an AFC player so he’d have to but those 6 months have apparently left a bad taste in his mouth.
posted on 6/2/21
He is better than Mustafi and should've been in our Europa squad and played all those games
posted on 7/2/21
The whole thing was a mess no doubt and I'm still not sure what's happened there, why he wasn't named in EL squad at least. Good he's doing well since it means either we'll mend the relationship with him and get a good CB back or we'll at least make our money back, if not sell him for a profit for once.
That'd make @Nice change, boom boom