William Gallas believes there is still more to come from Arsenal and England’s man of the moment .
The 21-year-old has taken his game to a new level this season with a flurry of goals and assists helping power his side’s unlikely Premier League title challenge.
An essential part of Mikel Arteta’s set-up, Saka is now equally important to whose Three Lions began their qualifying campaign with wins over Italy and in the last week.
Saka started both games and decorated Sunday’s Wembley victory with a man of the match performance and a goal that typified his growing confidence and status.
, said to be worth a staggering £300,000-a-week, and Gallas is confident the winger will compete for the Ballon d’Or in future as long as he keeps improving his end product.
‘With the season that he is having now, I think he is maybe one of the best young players in the world,’ Gallas told .
‘You’ve got players that are a similar age who are also doing great things. Haaland is twenty two. I put him on the roof (laughs). I think you can put Saka just behind him. There are not too many players that are his age that are having a magnificent season.
‘It’s good (Saka’s development). Every season he improves and takes his game to another level. I hope he is going to be one of the players that will challenge for the Balon d’Or in the future because he has the quality for it.
‘That is why slowly, slowly, when you see what he is doing this season and how it compares to one or two years ago, it looks like he is a more decisive player. He can assist, he can score goals, these numbers improve year after year.
‘A player with his quality has to finish the season with fifteen or twenty goals. He is still young. He has the opportunity to improve.
‘One player like him, when he reaches the age of twenty four, he has to finish the season with a minimum of twenty goals.’
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