theHotHead wrote:Est83 wrote:TedLasso wrote:theHotHead wrote:The feeling I get from Saliba is that he feels hurt by the way he has been treated. Lets not ignore his age, would you want to go back to a manager that loaned you out for 2 seasons and didnt give you a fair opportunity ???
Ultimately I think youre right. Saliba’s experience over three years has been that he’s told he’s not ready and not wanted. At Marseille, he was loved and the first name on the team sheet. In his eyes, Marseille is a bigger club than Arsenal. If he were a free agent, Arsenal wouldn’t have a chance of landing him over Marseille to be honest.
Bigger club? Is that purely based on CL qualification?
If he stayed and didn't get games, it'd be like Odegaard at Madrid, not getting a chance, day by day lowering his potential. That, surely, is more frustrating than going out on loan for three seasons.
I get that he feels overlooked, but he's literally only as good as he is because he's had three seasons with plenty of game time that he just wouldn't have got at any top club. Did Emery beat anyone to his signature? From my memory only Totscum were after him, and he said that he sees us as the biggest club in England and one that he grew up watching.
I hope this can be smoothed over.
I understand what you are trying to say but I think it important that we make the distinction - Saliba didn't improve because he went on loan, he improved because he was top young player. Just like Fabregas and RVP, they didn't improve because of Wenger, they would've under any manager. Wenger gave them game time but thats yer lot.
Saliba would've improved going anywhere
Kind of my point though. If you don't get enough game time during important developmental years, you're potentially stunted.
Saliba is obviously a quality player, but he's improved massively in part due to the extra minutes, as Fabregas and RVP did.
The loans have made him better.