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Real Madrid have been credited with an interest in Arsenal’s William Saliba for some time (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jamie Carragher<\/a> has warned Arsenal that the club risk losing William Saliba<\/a> to Real Madrid<\/a> ‘if they don’t start winning trophies very quickly’ under Mikel Arteta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saliba has established himself as one of the most highly regarded central defenders in European football over the last few seasons and has twice been named in the PFA Team of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Over the last two seasons Arsenal have – on both occasions – finished runners-up to Manchester City<\/a> 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<\/a> this term.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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

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Saliba is out of contract at the Emirates in 2027 (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Saliba ‘looks like a Real Madrid player’, says Carragher (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘But I think when you’re at a club and this happened 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”.<\/p>\n

‘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.<\/p>\n

‘I do look at Saliba and to me he looks like a Real Madrid player. I can imagine him in a Real Madrid kit.<\/p>\n

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players and thinking, “Okay, we’re going to take them!”, and the players are receptive to it.’<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"493\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22631255 lazyload\" alt=\"Arsenal FC v West Ham United FC - Premier League\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2201536688_f3d301.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Saliba has twice been named in the PFA Team of the Year (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Real Madrid’s interest in Saliba has been well documented in recent months, with <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/02\/07\/arsenal-make-huge-demand-real-madrid-plot-william-saliba-transfer-22514694\/\">the France centre-back reportedly identified as the club’s top transfer target for the summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And according 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.<\/p>\n<p>‘It’s a short career, they want to be playing in the Champions League final, they want to be winning it,’ Carragher added.<\/p>\n<p>‘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.’<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"465\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22631270 lazyload\" alt=\"Arsenal v Chelsea - FA Cup Final\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-1263629495.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>The Gunners have not won a major trophy since their FA Cup win in 2020 (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/02\/24\/ian-wright-warns-arsenal-key-player-push-leave-summer-transfer-window-22618017\/\">Ian Wright made similar remarks over Saliba’s future<\/a> earlier this week, with rumours swirling linking the Frenchman with a big-money summer switch to the Bernabeu.<\/p>\n<p>Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Magalhaes and Saliba are all out of contract at Arsenal in 2027 and Wright fears the club could be faced with a similar situation that Liverpool have with Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When you\u2019re talking about renewals with certain players\u2026 Saka, Gabriel, Saliba\u2026 the way they\u2019re moving now, I bet those renewals are all going to be slow,\u2019 the ex-Arsenal striker said on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/podcasts\/wrightys-house\">Wrighty’s House<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019re going to have a situation maybe like <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/liverpool-fc\/\">Liverpool<\/a> with Trent, Salah and Virgil.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"594\" height=\"396\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22631274 lazyload\" alt=\"Manchester United v Leicester City - Emirates FA Cup Fourth Round\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2198434605.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Arsenal must recruit well in the summer to convince their top players to stay, says Wright (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018If I\u2019m one of these players\u2026 and their teams are going to be saying, \u201cLet\u2019s wait and see, we\u2019ve got two years left so let\u2019s wait and see who they get in the summer! I know the manager has signed again but let\u2019s wait and see!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If they\u2019re not going to get the kind of players that take us to the next step\u2026 look at Saliba. Real Madrid would take him tomorrow. Why not wait and see what\u2019s going on in the summer to see the kind of players and calibre of player we\u2019re signing?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Wright stressed that it was \u2018vitally important\u2019 for Arsenal to \u2018get it right\u2019 in terms of recruitment if they have serious ambitions of keeping hold of key players like Saliba.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u2018This is what the people upstairs need to be careful of and I\u2019m sure Mikel will have told them that because he\u2019s probably got the same kind of ambition: if you\u2019re not going to give me the kind of players I need, I\u2019m not going to be able to keep the players I\u2019ve got here that are our best players, who are now running down their contracts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We haven\u2019t even got into that conversation yet about these players. This summer and who comes is f***ing vitally important to these players.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There\u2019s a lot going on right now that needs to be unpacked by these people upstairs and they better get it right. 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