Mikel Arteta's stance on Bukayo Saka amid Juventus claims and contract issue

Mikel Arteta is unconcerned about the speculation surrounding Bukayo Saka 's future.

And Arsenal fully expect to tie down the England star to a new deal soon.

The 20-year-old has been linked with a surprise move to Juventus in recent weeks. It was even claimed in Italy that Arsenal would be open to selling their academy graduate for a figure just shy of £45million.

Saka has been instrumental to the more positive periods of Arteta's reign and a departure would come as a huge shock - never mind for that price.

One of his personal highlights under the Spaniard came on Sunday in the North London derby victory over Tottenham Hotspur.

The England international assisted Emile Smith Rowe 's opener and scored the third goal to help the Gunners win 3-1.

Saka has been linked with a move to Juventus ( Image:

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Despite Saka having just two years remaining on his current contract at the Emirates, Mirror Football understands Arsenal are not worried about losing the highly-rated youngster, who the club are confident will agree a new deal.

Arteta is understandably a big fan of the Arsenal starlet and his long-time teammate, Smith Rowe, praising the pair after the derby triumph.

"They've been raised and developed within our system. They've come here in a big derby and worked for the team and scored two goals," the Gunners boss explained.

"They are able to trust me to get that feeling because they've been raised and educated really experiencing those feelings and being in the stadium as a supporter of the club.

Arteta added: "A lot of people that we have in our organisation have a real sense of what a derby means and I think they will be proud of what they've seen."

Saka himself echoed that sentiment by revealing how he and Smith Rowe had dreamt of scoring in a North London derby since they were in the Hale End academy since the ages of seven and 10 respectively.

"We spoke about this, about how massive it would feel to score in a north London derby," the versatile winger said.

"When Emile scored the first goal, I looked him at him and we remembered the conversation. When I scored, he looked at me again, so it's a very, very special feeling for both of us. I'm so happy we could do it together."

Saka also affirmed that if his side can produce performances of that ilk more often, the current squad and brings silverware to the Emirates, despite a youthful squad.

"We can achieve anything, no matter what age. With age comes experience but we have a lot of experience in this squad anyway which helps us," he stated.

"We have a lot of quality and enough experience to achieve a lot. We're going to take it game by game but if we play like this we have enough quality to win trophies."

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