He’s got all the attributes to be top class. Nothing stopping him from being one of the best in the world if he continues to develop. He’s got everything you need. Long time to go but certainly got off to a good start.
The worry for Arsenal would be how do they navigate this fixture congested season without needing to make too many changes to the team. One or two injuries to key players can really derail them. I’d say Jesus and Saliba are their two most important players right now.
Without hoping to jinx it, I think we should be ok up to the World Cup. Looking at how the games pan out up to then, we should hopefully be able to rotate a bit in the Europa League group stage, meaning we can rest the more fragile players in the main and break up the Sun / Thu cycle for some of them.
After the world cup is a different story, hopefully we are able to sign a couple in January to give us an extra push for the 2nd part of the season.
This is the most baffling thing. Yet Arse fans on here are convinced they always had faith in him.
The fact is that they just got lucky after their summer transfer acquisitions failed, otherwise he’d still be at Marseille this season.
You need to also remember the circumstances he was signed. He was signed as an 18 year old who had played about 20 games for St Etienne.
He was then allowed to stay on loan there as part of the deal and that allowed him to get more first team exposure.
Then first the coach and then afterwards the Director of football that signed him were let go at Arsenal.Then Covid then hit and and Ligue 1 finished early.
He came to Arsenal during Covid restrictions after not playing for months and I believe he also had some personal loss. He was deemed not ready and allowed to go back on loan to Nice in January but a loan should have wrapped up in the summer window, big failing there.
Now, of course after returning from Nice, he perhaps could and should have been introduced then. However he was allowed to leave on loan for another season. I don't doubt we'd have been a better team had he stayed, so many can argue that was a big mistake, some would argue it was good for him to get another year out on loan playing week in week.
What I will say is that a few times during the season Arteta said we were watching him, we were happy with how he was doing, and that he was our player and would be part of our squad going forward. We were all hoping he would stay true to his word and he has.