Bukayo Saka signs new long-term contract to become Arsenal's best-paid player

Bukayo Saka has signed a new long-term contract with Arsenal (Image: Image Photo Agency/Getty Images)

Arsenal star Bukayo Saka has signed a new long-term contract at the Emirates Stadium. The Gunners forward will reportedly become the club's best-paid player on £300,000 a week.

And the club's ambition under Mikel Arteta has seen Saka , 24, commit the most important years of his career to the north London club. It follows new long-term deals being signed by William Saliba, Gabriel Magalhaes, Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly last summer, with sporting director Andrea Berta keen to keep the club's best talent.

Saka has scored seven goals in 33 appearances for the Gunners so far this season as the club chase a first Premier League title since 2004. Arsenal sit four points clear at the top with 12 games to go.

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Arteta's team are also through to the knockout stages of the Champions League, as well as the fifth round of the FA Cup where they will travel to League One side Mansfield Town next month. Arsenal are also 90 minutes away from a first major trophy since 2020 as they face Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley on March 22.

The Gunners return to action at bottom-placed Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers on Wednesday evening (8pm GMT). Arsenal could go seven points clear of second-placed Manchester City before Pep Guardiola's men host Newcastle United on Saturday.

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta attends a press conference ahead of clash with Wolves (Image: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

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And Arteta has spoken in his pre-match press conference about Saka's new role as a No.10 in his side and the relationship he has on the pitch with winger Noni Madueke.

He said: "I think he does and everything that brings a challenge to him and he needs to prove something. I think it takes something from him and I think it's something positive.

"They [Saka and Madueke] were in the gym, and they were testing, and everybody was trying to compete with each other, and those two were hilarious, as usual. And it's great to witness because ego is natural, you know.

"It's the way they like each other so much, they're constantly together. And yet there is some competition within the places, but they take it from an incredible side, and then the team gets benefit from that, and they get benefit from that as well."