Saliba will return to Arsenal in summer - Mavididi

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next season and claimed  the defender is in the same class with Marquinhos and Thiago Silva.

Arsenal signed Saliba from Saint-Etienne in 2019 and then loaned him to Ligue 1. The French defender joined his new team-mates at the Emirates Stadium the same year but was not on Mikel Arteta's roster for the 2021-22 season and then moved to Nice and Marseille on loan. He performed very well in Marseille and was one of the best players on his team, and now Mavididi has predicted that the French defender will return to Arsenal in the summer.

“That guy’s a player. He’s hands down one of the best defenders in the league, hands down.

"I think he’ll walk back into the Arsenal team next season. When I played against him last year I thought: ‘How is this guy not playing at Arsenal?’.

“He’s strong, good on the ball, he reads the game well. Sometimes you walk off the pitch and think - fair play man, respect.

“The defender has kept up with you, out tussled you, out quitted you, you have to say fair play, this guy’s a good player.

“He’s one of the best centre-backs I’ve faced. Everyone can talk about Marquinhos, Thiago Silva, Jerome Boateng, but he’s up there.

“He’s the one that surprised me the most. I’m an Arsenal fan too and playing against Saliba I thought, we’ve got a very decent defender here!”

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