Posted December 20, 2021 at 10:15 pm by AM
Recruited for 30M € by Arsenal, William Saliba admits that he arrived a little too confident at the Gunners after his departure from ASSE.
Trained at ASSE , William Saliba made a very remarkable debut with the Saint-Etienne club to such an extent that Arsenal did not hesitate to drop € 30M in 2019 to complete his transfer. The native of Bondy is however loaned a season to the ASSE in order to continue his progression and arrives at the Gunners during the summer of 2020 where Mikel Arteta replaced Unai Emery who was behind his transfer. Result, William Saliba does not play and does not enter into the plans of Mikel Arteta to the point of being loaned six months later to OGC Nice then to OM last summer. A particular situation on which the international hopes have confided.
“It puts a good slap, it feels good”
“There are hard times. I haven't played a game for six months. You have to fight in a career. We must take that as a lesson to go further. It gave me a little slap to say: “You are nobody!” You can be bought 30M €, arrive in a club and we put you aside. I took this experience by being positive. I feed on it. I know what it's like not to play for six months. Today, every game, I want to play it. It puts the ideas back in place. Before arriving at Arsenal, I said to myself: “Who am I going to play in a match?” And there, you are not even in the group in the league. It puts a good slap, it feels good. It puts you back on the ground. Football is going fast, ”he says in remarks granted to Eurosport.