{"id":302685,"date":"2026-02-17T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:15:09","slug":"mikel-arteta-news-conference-white-and-calafiori-fit-for-arsenals-game-against-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302685\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta news conference: White and Calafiori fit for Arsenal&#8217;s game against Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal make Saka best-paid player with new dealpublished at 14:34 GMT<\/p>\n<p>14:34 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ba870d4c-ad4f-4557-a8f0-7e5bff891019.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Sami Mokbel<br \/>BBC Sport Senior football correspondent<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While we are talking about Bukayo Saka, the England winger has signed a new five-year contract with Arsenal until 2031.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sources have told BBC Sport that the agreement will make Saka the club&#8217;s best-paid player on wages in excess of \u00a3300,000-a-week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Talks over a new deal have been ongoing for nearly a year, with Saka verbally agreeing to commit his future to the club in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saka signed his previous deal, which was due to expire in 2027, in 2023 but his renewal means the 24-year-old has committed his peak years to the Gunners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The news comes as a major boost for the Gunners, as they battle on four fronts to win silverware for the first time since 2020.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bukayo Saka\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2ca7b937-2f00-4bb2-abad-9efe7f11d18e.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal make Saka best-paid player with new dealpublished at 14:34 GMT 14:34 GMT Sami MokbelBBC Sport Senior football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-302685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}