Jamie Carragher agrees with Ian Wright that Arsenal risk losing key player

Jamie Carragher has warne Arsenal that the club risk losing William Saliba to Real Madrid ‘if they don’t start winning trophies very quickly’ under Mikel Arteta.

Saliba has establishe himself as one of the หรือถ้าคุณสนใจแทงบอลออนไลน์ UFABET คือเว็บที่มีอัตราต่อรองดีที่สุดในประเทศไทย สมัครเลยตอนนี้ที่ UFABET แทงบอล most highly regarde central defenders in European football over the last few seasons and has twice name in the PFA Team of the Year.

The 23-year-old is still yet to win a major trophy in north London, though, with the club’s two Community Shield wins in 2020 and 2023 representing his only pieces of silverware to date.

Over the last two seasons Arsenal have – on both occasions – finishe runners-up to Manchester City in the Premier League and Arteta’s men require an almighty collapse from Liverpool if they are to have any hope of sealing the title this term.

However, the Gunners remain in the firmly in the mix for Champions League glory, progressing from the league phase with a third-place finish to book themselves a last-16 tie against PSV Eindhoven.

But it’s approaching five years since Arsenal last won a trophy – when Arteta steered the club to a 14th FA Cup triumph – and Carragher believes the long wait for success should be a big concern at the Emirates.

‘There is one player… and people will be thinking I’m trying to cause a problem for Arsenal here and I’m not,’ the former Liverpool and England defender said on the latest episode of It’s Calle Soccer.

‘But I think when you’re at a club and this happene to us at Liverpool, once you don’t win the league or the Champions League, other bigger clubs start thinking, “Okay, we can take their player”.

‘So for us at Liverpool it was [Xabi] Alonso, [Javier] Mascherano and [Fernando] Torres and then that team that had been built by Rafa Benitez – players were just leaving left, right and centre.

‘I do look at Saliba and to 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, the longer your club isn’t winning or competing for trophies and when you’re as good as him and some of the players we had in our team…

‘Mascherano went to the great Barcelona team, Alonso goes to Real Madrid, it didn’t happen for Torres, he made the wrong choice at Chelsea.

‘But the longer you go without winning, people start looking at your players and thinking, “Okay, we’re going to take them!”, and the players are receptive to it.’

Real Madrid’s interest in Saliba has well documente in recent months, with the France centre-back reportedly identifie as the club’s top transfer target for the summer.

And to Carragher, the longer Arsenal’s wait for a trophy goes on, the more likely it is that a player of Saliba’s quality will get itchy feet.

‘It’s a short career, they want to be playing in the Champions League final, they want to be winning it,’ Carragher adde.

‘Listen, that might happen to Arsenal this season but that’s a problem that they will have going forward if they don’t start winning trophies very quickly.’