The Portugal international joined the Gunners as one of the brightest talents in European football and posted some impressive statistics while playing for FC Porto.
The Gunners were happy to have signed an exciting player and hoped he would become an important player for them.
Vieira was given time to settle in and has shown glimpses of his undoubted talent.
However, there has been no consistency from the midfielder, and Arsenal fans have been worried about his performances for their team.
The midfielder will be eager to contribute more to the team next season, and Football London’s Kaya Kaynak believes he can do that.
Speaking about Vieira’s future in a Q and A session on the website, he said:
“As for the impact on the squad, I think maybe we’ll see Fabio Vieira step up a bit.
“He’s a player who Arteta went big on to sign and it’s about time he starts delivering in the first team.”
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Vieira is one of the players we were excited about, and it is sad that he is struggling to play well for us.
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A Complete mystery how the club are actively looking to offload ESR while keeping the likes of this guy ,but maybe it’s because we only get a fraction of the 35 million we wasted on him .
mystery solved = £££
ESR gets Arsenal a higher price tag, say £35m, and that £35m is pure profit for FFP/PSR
Vieira gets Arsenal a lower price tag, say £27m, but with 3 years of his 5 year contract to go has an unamortised book value of £21m (£7m per year of 5 year contract), so from FFP/PSR perspective £6m profit (or at least £6m about current book value)
so a £29m difference selling ESR vs Vieira
to take that a step further £35m is a big boost to Arsenal ability to spend in this window, effectively pays for a £58m buy (5 year contract, equivalent wages) FFP/PSR neutral
this also explains why Chelsea signing 8 year contracts, and why Villa and Chelsea dodgy deals selling each other players for £35m in time for FFP/PSR 30 June cut-off
Stopped reading at my……
probably just as well
Some good reasoning there based on financial considerations. It is also worth noting that Vieira’s skill set is different from ESR’s and if he can achieve consistent fitness he could become a real asset. He is more of a creative player than ESR. His lack of physicality has often been cited as an issue but this need not be the case with effective use of technique.
oh definitely, next to Odegaard offers the most creativity in the current squad, not suggesting for one minute Vieira is as good as Odegaard and still worries me if Odegaard should pick up a long term injury, ESR has lots of good attributes, and would prefer he stays too, but does not have that creativity skill set, more the box-to-box type or coming in from wide
so to your point ours squad is short on creative playmaker type midfielders, with many more options in the box-to-box hence ESR limited game time
That just says you seem not to understand how different in profiles both players are. Viera, if he can deal with the physical side of the EPL, he has more to his technical game than ESR in terms what we already have in the squad. ESR is a better carrier, but Viera’s range of passing is what we need. He just needs to be clever and not be dominated physically.
Arsenal faced many low block defence based opponents last season, and we struggled to break the low block down at times
Euros saw even elite teams play ultra cautious low to mid block, so regrettably the tactical trend seems to be increasing
Vieira’s opportunity to show he has the creativity and killer pass in his locker as I fear we may need it more than ever before
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Love that bud ,keep em coming .
I’m surprised you have time to reply to my comments thought you would be in the boardroom with Arteta and edu Discussing our next transfers .
bed time…bud!
As I said last week. Viera will be the most improved player at Arsenal this year. His vision to spot a run is even better than Odeguaard and Arteta values him very high.
Last season he was unlucky on two fronts, first his in and out the team due to niggling injuries, that he has now had put right through hospital specialist operations.
Second, he had created the most assists to goal scoring chances, more than any other Arsenal player and almost 50% more than what was achieved by Odeguaard.
Now, assists to goal scoring chances is different to assists to goals scored.
In other words, the pass was layed on and the striker missed the target. Hence a goal scoring chance. But it is not his fault that the striker missed the target when shooting for goal.
If he had a decent striker on the end of his goal scoring pass, he would and should have had the most assists last season, but just let down by poor clinical strikers, which is just bad luck.
Fans that don’t understand football and find these STATs to technical and confusing, will argue that it’s BS.
But Arteta knows what the STATs mean and will be backing Viera as will most of the other knowledgeable STATs analyst in the fan and media circle, as I will too.
This year with Viera a year more experienced and now injury free due to hospital operations, I believe as I have been saying for the past week or more, Viera will become a star in this Arsenal team and will get more involved with the starting 11.
Watch this player.
I think this is crazy how let go of ESR who’s way better than Fabio viera, its really a pity… Arsenal’s recruitment team need to rethink…
Let’s see what he can do. At £35m Arteta will have to give him a chance in 2024-25. Viera is too expensive for a benchwarmer.
The main (potential) problem is, of course, fitness. Hopefully, he’ll be fully recovered now but you never know until he’s actually had an extended run in the first team. Fingers crossed.
Arteta needs to find a proper role for Vieira and stick him to that role. No point making a player jack of all trades who masters none
Arsenal had a winning team for two years, just a few points missing. Now Arteta is starting again, this team won’t gel for five games at least by that time they will have lost points, something they cannot afford to do. If they finish fourth I’ll eat my hat. You keep a winning team not change it.