{"id":73,"date":"2026-02-21T10:59:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=73"},"modified":"2026-02-21T10:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:59:49","slug":"bukayo-saka-renews-with-arsenal-until-2031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Bukayo Saka renews with Arsenal until 2031"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Arsenal confirmed this Thursday the renewal of attacker Bukayo Saka<\/strong> until 2031<\/strong>making him at the same time the footballer with the highest salary on the team.<\/p>\n

The English player, 24 years old, He will receive a salary of more than 300,000 pounds per week<\/strong> (340,000 euros), which makes him the highest paid on the team.<\/p>\n

Saka’s previous contract expired in 2027<\/strong>so the agreement has been extended for four more seasons and is the latest example of Arsenal’s talent retention policy, which in recent months has secured the future of Gabriel Magalhaes<\/strong>, William Saliba<\/strong>, Myles Lewis-Skelly<\/strong> y Ethan Nwaneri<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Saka’s renewal, which has marked eight goals in 34 games<\/strong> This season with Arsenal, it comes in the middle of the Gunners’ fight to win their first major title since the 2020 FA Cup. Mikel Arteta’s team is leader of the Premier League<\/strong> with five points ahead of Manchester City, although they have played one more game, they passed the group stage of the Champions League with eight wins in eight games, they are in the fifth round of the FA Cup and in the final of the League Cup.<\/p>\n

left the Watford quarry<\/strong> and signed by Arsenal at the age of seven, the attacker went through several youth categories before becoming an undisputed starter at Arsenal, with whom he has played 297 games since his debut in 2018.<\/p>\n

At international level, Saka sums up 48 matches with the English team<\/strong> and fourteen goals and should be a fixture of Thomas Tuchel in the squad for the next World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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