William Saliba to make early Arsenal return if 24-year World Cup champions' curse continues
"It’s a young French side, where the majority of the players don’t have experience at the very highest level. This trend has occurred three more times since, with Italy, Spain and more recently Germany all falling foul to the World Cup champions' curse in 2010, 2014 and 2018 respectively. This means that the tournament's last four winners from Europe have all failed to progress past the group stage in the following World Cup. France go into this World Cup as the defending champions having won their second title in Russia four years ago and as mentioned above, they are expected to have a strong tournament. READ NEXT:Ferran Torres, Jude Bellingham, Youri Tielemans: Arsenal transfer targets to watch at World CupHow Arsenal could lineup after the World Cup with huge Cristiano Ronaldo transfer decisionMikel Arteta handed perfect Arsenal free transfer assessment amid World Cup announcementMikel Arteta has five Hale End wonderkids who can impress amid Arsenal's Super Cup announcementThe ‘secret weapon’ Arsenal can unleash in 2023 to help Mikel Arteta's Premier League title push
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