Arsenal will be getting William Saliba back this summer.

The 19 year old defender officially joined the Gunners last summer, but the Premier League side loaned him straight back to St. Etienne for the 2019-20 campaign.

Despite still being a teenager, Arsenal have a very exciting prospect on their hands because Saliba has won acclaim for a number of excellent performances this season.

The North Londoners have a lot of centre-halves on the books at this moment in time, including Sokratis  Papasthathopoulos, Rob Holding, Calum Chambers, David Luis and Shkodran Mustafi.

But Kevin Campbell, who spent seven successful years at Arsenal, says that Mikel Arteta will he putting the young Frenchman straight into his best 11 when he gets back to the Emirates stadium.

“If we can get Saliba in and bed him in nicely then atleast the defenceis a lot younger and us a lot stronger.”

Campbell is probably right and it’s a pretty damning indictment of Arteta’s options at the moment.

The fact that a 19-year-old who has zero experience in the Premier League is perhaps their best centre-back really does speak volumes for how poor the likes of Mustafi, Luiz and Socratis are.