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The case of William Saliba is probably one of the most curious in Arsenal's transfer history.

The Frenchman was signed in the summer of 2019 before being immediately loaned back out to St. Etienne for the season - nothing particularly strange there, especially given that Laurent Koscielny was fully expected to see out one more year at the Emirates at the time.

However, the weirdness began the summer after. Having missed much of his spell back with Les Verts due to injury and the early termination of that Ligue 1 season due to Covid-19, Saliba was left out of Mikel Arteta's squad for the 2020/21 campaign and forced to play under-23s football before joining Nice for the second half of that season.

Another loan spell at Marseille this year means that nearly three years on from being signed, the 20-year-old is still yet to make his competitive senior Gunners debut. That could be about to change very soon though.

understands that Arsenal intend to welcome Saliba back into their squad this summer.

With Calum Chambers having left to join Aston Villa and Pablo Mari on loan at Udinese as a consequence of his currently out of first team plans, this would seem to indicate that the Frenchman will be returning to North London to be part of Arteta's squad.

Given that Saliba has just been nominated for Marseille's