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arsenal vs everton tv usa William Saliba can be Arsenal first-team star next season – Mikel Arteta Mikel Arteta has said defender William Saliba is in his plans for next season and challenged the defender to establish himself as a first-team regular at Arsenal.

Saliba arrived at the Emirates in 2019 from Saint-Etienne in a £27 million deal, but he is yet to play a competitive game for the club.only)

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He was immediately loaned back to Saint-Etienne before spending further temporary loan spells at Nice and Marseille.

Salibia, 21, excelled last season and was named Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year after playing nearly all of Marseille’s 38 league games.

He has since returned to Arsenal and is set to feature in Saturday’s pre-season friendly against Everton in Baltimore.

“He’s in the plans,” Arteta said. “We cannot guarantee first-team football to anybody in this team — you can ask that question to anybody.

“What we guarantee is that the ones we really see and think are going to take us to the next level, they’re going to be playing a lot of minutes.

“He’s a proper talent and he’s shown in the last year what can do. But in football it’s about what you do the next day — what everybody did three months ago or a month ago, it doesn’t really matter. It’s about what you do tomorrow and he’s going to have the chance to play.”

Saliba’s route to the first-team has been far from straight forward, including the last-minute collapse of a second loan move to Saint-Etienne in 2020 — a failure the French club claimed was down to Arsenal failing to complete the paperwork in time — which left him to train with Arsenal’s under-23 squad for more than three months before moving to Nice.

“The communication and the honesty we had between each other has always been very clear — I never promised minutes,” Arteta added.