GFF: 5-year contract for William Saliba with Arsenal, loaned back to St Étienne for the 2019/20 campaign - done deal. (YS)

A tall, athletic defender at Asenal. I would have never ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48920561

Ornstein says Saliba is done and will be loaned back. And that the signing will have very little impact on this year's budget.

The BBC also used a picture of Jean-Clair Todibo of Barcelona and the France U20s instead of Saliba in their article, incompetent fools that they are.

Hahahah. I can sort of see the resemblance

Yep. Also this is great to hear:

Arsenal remain in the market for a player to come straight into the first-team squad in the same position.

Arsenal are also pursuing Celtic left-back Kieran Tierney, 22, and additionally hope to recruit a central midfielder and winger.

Gonna change my opinion on Raul if we get them all in. CB, left-back, CM and winger. It's what we need really. Add the brazilian kid and Saliba for next season and that's a great summer.

Great news. These are exactly the type of signings we need to make.

HomeSteak wrote:

Yep. Also this is great to hear:

Arsenal remain in the market for a player to come straight into the first-team squad in the same position.

Arsenal are also pursuing Celtic left-back Kieran Tierney, 22, and additionally hope to recruit a central midfielder and winger.

Gonna change my opinion on Raul if we get them all in. CB, left-back, CM and winger. It's what we need really. Add the brazilian kid and Saliba for next season and that's a great summer.

If we got of those players in, then in reality we have done as much as we can on top of signing Saliba.

We just need to shift some of the deadwood now.

That would make for a great summer if we can get those guys in.

Leaves us with a lot to do over the next 4 weeks.

Looks like we got our Willie sorted.

good signing i guess. i havent watched him play a single match. from his compilations, he looks strong and mobile, which is good. also looked like 90% of his tackles will be called fouls in the premier league, so hopefully he adjusts accordingly whenever he actually plays for us.

Hopefully Willy doesn’t turn out to be massive flop

Heard he stands firm at the rear.

Saliba was done about 2 weeks ago according to Jones most reliable journalist ever.

Tierney, Zaha and Bruno Fernandes is the dream

Nah, I demand Szobo.

Talking of Szoboszlai, Lazio are reportedly looking at him as a replacement for Juventus-bound, Milinkovic-Savic. I want us all over that. I'd sign him even at the expense of another centre midfielder coming in.

Wonder if he'll be allowed to join any of our training camps during the season or whether he will be strictly with St Etienne until next summer.

So let me get this straight.

With only 4 weeks to go to the summer transfer deadline, we have signed a Brazilian 18 year old and some young French kid that wont be able to play till this time next year?

We better be getting min 3/4 more players to play in first team! Not likely to happen though.

We will definitely sign players for the first team

remains to be seen what calibre those players are. budget restrictions make me feel like a 2011 type window is in the offing, with some mertesacker and arteta level buys

Gazza M wrote:

remains to be seen what calibre those players are. budget restrictions make me feel like a 2011 type window is in the offing, with some mertesacker and arteta level buys

those worked out better than the ozil, mustafi, mkhitaryan buys, tbh