Bukayo Saka has signed a new contract that will keep him at Arsenal through 2031. The deal makes the winger the highest-paid player at the club, receiving in excess of £300,000 a week. The Hale End graduate’s current contract was set to expire at the end of next season (2027) and he had already told the club that he intended to stay, but pen-to-paper feels good for all parties, supporters included.
Words cannot capture how much Bukayo Saka means to the club. He’s a bona fide superstar, despite his
somewhat down year in terms of goal involvement thus far, and he means more to Arsenal than he would to any other club in the world because he’s one of our own. The contract will take him beyond a decade of first-team football in North London. I’d love to see him retire as a one-club man.7
Arsenal are in the process of tying down their core players through their prime years. The Gunners handed William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes new contracts over the summer. They also extended youngsters Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly, setting the team up current and sustained success.
Of the current group of regulars, only Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard remain on a contract expiring in 2027. I’d wager Trossard is either sold this summer or kept around to run down his contract. I could see Arsenal offering the Belgian a new two-year deal with a club option for a third, but I don’t think they’d go longer than that. Trossard is 31 and may want to look for more term on what could be his final professional contract.
If the club plan on keeping Martinelli, which I suspect they do even though plenty of people have wanted to see him sold, his new deal is up next. The club hold a one-year option in his contract, giving them the ability to extend him through 2028. The Brazilian has expressed a desire to remain in North London.
Jurrien Timber, David Raya, Mikel Merino, Ben White, Declan Rice, Martin Ødegaard, and Kai Havertz are all up in 2028. You’d expect the club to start working on some of those deals this summer, if things aren’t already in motion behind the scenes. Arsenal have done a good job of staggering their contract expiry dates and staying ahead of contracts winding down.
Arsenal have their core players and they’re keeping them around. Bukayo Saka is one of the cornerstones. It’s fantastic to know he’ll be at the club for several more seasons.
