Perfect. See you next year. In the mean time, we will imagine that you're Tony Adams while Shkodran mustafis.

He's got a lot to live up to for a teenager. Guess we'll all be keeping an eye on St. Etienne this season.

Great to see this done, but I can't really get excited at the moment about a kid in his teens who I haven't seen play and won't arrive until next summer. He better be a Varane level talent to motivate this sort of investment.

Great to see

Klaus wrote:

Great to see this done, but I can't really get excited at the moment about a kid in his teens who I haven't seen play and won't arrive until next summer. He better be a Varane level talent to motivate this sort of investment.

more importantly, next season, we better have a solid, experienced CB who he can learn from. because i assume we arent spending all this money to let him play in the league cup. hes going to be starting for us in 2 seasons. and if hes starting next to someone like mustafi, it doesnt matter how talented he is, he is going to struggle and that could greatly hurt his development

Sounds like he's got a good head on his shoulders.
Where's DK? He should post those Saliba quotes on the Spurs forum. Get the people going.

Been waiting for defensive signing of this profile most of my adult life

Same. Tall strong and pacy. We have never ever signed a young defender this highly rated so for that I'm excited enough. What's more, a player we think is worth loaning back for just to get his signature must be darn good.

Anyway so as it turns out the loan was compulsory and no money added on would have gotten him without the loan back.

Clrnc wrote:

Same. Tall strong and pacy. We have never ever signed a young defender this highly rated so for that I'm excited enough. What's more, a player we think is worth loaning back for just to get his signature must be darn good.

Anyway so as it turns out the loan was compulsory and no money added on would have gotten him without the loan back.

I'm happy about the loan. It's the right move, showing that there are good people on all sides. The boy can have some home-cooked steaks and continue to develop in peace in a familiar environment to get to about 2000 minutes as a full-fledged starter. 

Then he can arrive here fully cooked. All he has to do next year is work out what his partner Mustafi is trying to do. 

Genuinely exciting signing for the defense, wouldn’t mind Boateng as cover for the year. Also seems we are paying £3.6m this year leaving plenty for the other CB we get.

Ricky1985 wrote:

From the short Arsenal announcement video I posted in the opening post:

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Might partly explain why we got such a highly rated player, and why he wasn't interested in joining Tottenham.

that's why i don't get how wenger could spend so many years building arsenal's reputation in france (francenal) and they get a super golden generation and we don't end up with any. what's the point of all these great french players talking about how they supported arsenal and they're playing for other big clubs.

He reminds me of a young Vincent Kompany

A player who won't be here this season and another who won't be here next is a fairly underwhelming transfer announcement even by Arsenal standards. Hope he's decent but like Klaus I can't get excited yet about a teenager coming next season when we continue with the defence in a dire state this season.

Pair him up with a primo centre back in the 23-25 age bracket next season and profit

Gazza M wrote:

Pair him up with a primo centre back in the 23-25 age bracket next season and profit

maybe varane can force his way out of madrid and we can have present varane and future varane playing next to each other

Welcome to the club.
Like his comments about wanting to improve this season so that when he joins the playing squad next season he wants to be ready to contribute.

Only if he is patient enough to stay with us and not move onto real contenders while we dilly dally

Hope he’s not the French Micah Richards

And in the mean time we continue with Mustafi and Jenkinson in the defence this season.

promising

He really does remind of a young Varane.

Yes, he looks a bit like a young Varane

One for the future but looks a great talent, I know we need a CB now but for his development another year in France will do him good.

He reminds me of a young Varane.

I'm kinda cheesed that we're in the quandary of not having a CB yet letting a smashin new CB go back on a loan. But I suppose it worked in our favour fending off Spuds.

It's gonna be painful watching Mustafi gifting goals for the oppo's while Saliba is beasting in Ligue 1.

banduan wrote:

I'm kinda cheesed that we're in the quandary of not having a CB yet letting a smashin new CB go back on a loan. But I suppose it worked in our favour fending off Spuds.

Long term it will have its benefits, he is only 18 so would be unrealistic to expect him to come in and solve our problems straight away. Another year in France will be very good for him

What's the rush on this guy exactly? He barely played last year. Leave him to develop with the knowledge that you don't have to fight for him next summer

People saying all those stuffs, we should always always be doing that with talents and beat other clubs to it no matter what it takes.

Exactly. Chuffed to bits with this deal.

There's a whole squad of Arsenal supporters that are in it to be as negative as possible. Arsenal will be stupid no matter what they do, it'll be a bad deal no matter what it is, and the grass will always be greener. We sign youth, where are the real signings? We sign experience, where are the youth? It'll never end.

This was a great deal, and we're on course for an excellent summer. It's all still to be proved, though.

He's not going to be here for year? Well then the job of the rest of the squad is to make sure he comes to a Champions League club.

What do we recon lads - those blond highlights gone by the time he plays for us?

Blond highlights, did you say?

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