**Arsenal**have tied down the future of Bukayo Saka.
The BBC have reported that the attacker has agreed on a long-term deal that will last until 2030, and he is also set to become the team’s best paid player with a wage packet in excess of £300,000 a week.
Saka signed his previous deal with the club in 2023, committing to being a part of the club until 2027. He now joins William Saliba, Gabriel Magalhaes, Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly on a lengthening list of players to renew their terms with the Gunners since the start of the summer.
It is the latest step in an almost ‘picture perfect’ career for a Premier League academy graduate.
Developed through Hale End, Saka earned his first minutes for the first team at the end of 2018. He was trusted to fill in as a wing-back by Unai Emery towards the beginning of the 2019/20 campaign before becoming an even bigger part of the plans under Mikel Arteta in the second half of the season.
Shifting from left back into the role of right winger, Saka soon turned into the star boy of the side. He bounced back from the disappointment with **England**at EURO 2021 to register double digits for the first time in the league in 2022, the second year in a row that he was his club’s Player of the Season.
He was then named PFA Player of the Year for the 2022/23 campaign as **Arsenal**finished second in the table behind treble winning Man City, backing up a 14-goal league season with a tally of 16 goals the next year. Even during an injury-hit 2024/25 campaign, with a three-and-a-half-month stint on the sidelines because of a Grade 3 hamstring tear, he contributed 25 goals across just 37 appearances.
The signings from the summer of 2025 were meant to help take the burden off the back of the number seven. Their presence has padded out the squad, but it still feels like Saka is the star of the side. He has ascended above all adversity, and now it is the time for him to lead his boyhood club to glory.