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How much William Saliba stands to earn in wages as Arsenal readying contract offer amid Real Madrid interest
TBR Football can exclusively confirm that Arsenal are readying a contract offer for William Saliba that, if accepted, will put him on par with the club’s highest earners.
Saliba has been a revelation since breaking into the Arsenal first-team in 2022, three years after✃ initially joining the🍌 club.
The Frenchman has formed an incredible centre-back partnership with Gabriel Magalhaes, the duo helping Arsenal become Premier League title challengers.
Arsenal are n🦩ow ꦯlooking to move quickly and decisively amid interest in Saliba from Real Madrid.
William Saliba would be earning close to £250k-a-week with new Arsenal contract
Saliba, who turns 24 next month, has emerged as one of the Prem🐲ier League top defenders and signed a new long-term deal in 2023.
His performances have not gone unnoticed and not jus♍t at the Emirates Stadium, with European champions Real Madrid keeping ♕close tabs on his progress.
Saliba’s current deal at Arsenal runs to 2027, but Arsenal are ready to reward him with a significant pay increase and put him close to £250,000-a-week, TBR Football chief correspondent Graeme Bailey has confirmed.
This will put him in the same category as the likes of Martin Odegaard, 🀅Declan Rice and the club’s highest paid player Kai Havertz.
TBR Football so🐻urces understand that Arsenal are confident that Saliba can be convinced to sign♛ a fresh deal.
They will look to open talks in the coming months with a view to getting a deal over the lineಞ before the start of next season.
What Ian Wright and Jamie Carragher have said about William Saliba future
Arsenal appear to be acting quickly in wake of sev🍬eral leading Englishღ pundits stressing that the Gunners are at risk of losing Saliba to the Bernabeu.
Wright believes R🅺eal Madrid could come in for Saliba and that Arsenal need t💛o makeꦆ some big signings to convince him to stay put.
“Let’s wait and see who they get in the summer,” he recently said on Wrighty’s House. ﷺ“Let’s wait ꧃and see.
“I know the manager’s signed again, buജt let’📖s wait and see.
“Because if they’re not going to get the kinꦚd of players that’s going to take us to the next step, and there’s people like, look at Salibaಞ. Real Madrid will take him tomorrow.
“Why would he not wait and see what’s going on in the summer to see the kind of players and the calibre of player we’re signing? Because✤ this is what I think the people upstairs need to be careful of.”
Saliba is viewed as a “superstar” by Real Madrid and Carragher has warned Arsenal that 🔯Saliba might well decജide to leave one day unless they start winning football’s bigge🐼st prizes.
“There is one player and people will think I’m trying to cause a pr🉐oblem at Arsenal here but I’m not but this again, happened to us at Liverpool,” he said on The Overlap’s US show, ‘It’s Called Soccer!’.
“Onc🦋e you don’t win the league or the Champions League, other bigger clubs start thinking, ‘Okay, we can take their player.’ So, for us, it was [Xabi] Alonso, [Javier] Mascherano and [Fe♍rnando] Torres.”
“And that team that Rafa Benitez has buil⛎t, players had just been leaving left, right and centre.
“And I do look at Saliba and I do look at h𝐆im and think, for me, he looks like a Real Madrid player. I can imagine him in a Real Madrid kit, you look at some of the best centre-backs out there.”