{"id":24040,"date":"2025-09-26T09:58:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/mikel-arteta-aims-to-dig-into-real-madrid-over-a-failed-attempt-to-sign-the-arsenal-star\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:58:41","slug":"mikel-arteta-aims-to-dig-into-real-madrid-over-a-failed-attempt-to-sign-the-arsenal-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/mikel-arteta-aims-to-dig-into-real-madrid-over-a-failed-attempt-to-sign-the-arsenal-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta aims to dig into Real Madrid over a failed attempt to sign the Arsenal Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riccardo Kaliori, William Salva, Mikel Arteta (Photos: Images of Bryn Rennon and Alex Panty)<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta appeared to be aiming to dig into Real Madrid as he discussed William Saliba&#8217;s future at Emirates Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It appears now that Saliba has agreed to a new Arsenal deal, but Arteta seemed very pleased with the situation at today&#8217;s press conference.<\/p>\n<p>France International has been a world-class performer since invading the Gunners&#8217; side in the 2022\/23 season, and if Real Madrid made a serious effort to sign him, that would be totally understandable.<\/p>\n<p>Still, when asked about the rumoured interest from Spain, Arteta revealed that he always assured Saliba that he wanted to stay with Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>See below as manager who commented that there are not many teams that the manager can drive Saliba out of Arsenal&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>William Saliba&#8217;s deal is great news for Arsenal<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big boost that Arsenal has also tied up Saliba after recent new deals with star names like Gabriel Magalges, Miles Lewis Skelly and Ethan Nuwaneri.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old looks like someone who can definitely start at basically any club in the world. He will be important to Arsenal for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Central Defense&#8217;s Gabriel, he is one of the team&#8217;s most instrumental members as he has become much more solid than he has been in years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Saliba responds after getting injured during Arsenal vs Liverpool (Photo: Alex Panling\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t too long ago that the AFC was considered a slightly soft touch in the back, but now there aren&#8217;t many teams that can break them down. Much of this depends on Arteta&#8217;s coaching methods, but having the right players is also important.<\/p>\n<p>Saliba is also young enough to continue to improve, so it&#8217;s no wonder Arteta is so happy with the news.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riccardo Kaliori, William Salva, Mikel Arteta (Photos: Images of Bryn Rennon and Alex Panty) Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta appeared to be aiming to dig into Real Madrid as he discussed William Saliba&#8217;s future at Emirates Stadium. It appears now that Saliba has agreed to a new Arsenal deal, but Arteta seemed very pleased with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-24040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}