FABIO VIEIRA TO SIGN FOR ARSENAL

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‘VIEIRA OHHHH OHHH OHHHH, HE COMES FROM PORTUGAL, HE WANTS TO WIN IT ALL!’

COME ON THAT IS A GOOD SONG!

Oh, you want to know what I’m talking about?


David Ornstein and Fabrizio Romano and a bunch of Portuguese journos are saying that we are in for attacking midfielder Fabio Vieira.

Talk about classic early 2000s Arsenal WOAH WHERE DID THAT COME FROM transfer news.

The player is 5ft7, he seems to play all across the midfield, his end delivery is most excellent, the player racked up 14 assists last season. Vieira also fits the mould from a profile perspective, he’s 22 years old, he’s made 76 apps for the Portuguese giants, and I suspect he has VERY good character. Dare I say he has a bit of the Santi’s in tight spaces?

 

Porto season ticket holder and Arsenal fan @ruipbcribeiro had this say after I commented on my expertise of the players after watching 12 minutes of Youtube videos.

A lot of the players videos show off his ability to break play from deep with accurate long balls and some of his final 3rd work looked very Tielemans/Xhaka-ish. But, apparently, he’s more of a second striker and an attacking midfielder.

Do I know how he fits into this Arsenal starting 11? No. But I’m sure there’s a cunning plan. He’s very good in tight spots, control seems to be a key component of his game, and his final ball looks really, really sharp.

I didn’t expect this sort of signing, but he does check the box of ‘better end product’ that we need. Arsenal has to find more goals next season, this guy might help us get there. 7 goals isn’t the greatest in Portugal but combined with 16 assists, it shows where things couldn’t be going for someone very young.

What is very interesting is no one picked up on this deal. Arsenal don’t have the biggest wallet, so they have to make their moves in silence, if we pull this off, it’ll be quite something because none of the big journos had a clue.

There are some other stories doing the rounds, the Italian journos who called the Vlahovic bid are saying we’re looking at Oshimen for £80m, some German folk are saying Nkunku for £100m (lol), and The Times are reporting that we’re frontrunners for Gabi Jesus and that deal will be done.

One day after crying like babies on the Patreon Podcast, we’re out here perking up and puffing out our chests?

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Kegunner

Yet again hard to tell who the club will sign.

Mr Serge

Great song Pedro

TT

1st

Mr Serge

Him and Jesus and tielemans would be great

TT

2nd

Chrispy

I’ll take him. Sounds an interesting player

Positive pete

First? Must be an omen.At last another Viera song.lol!

Mr Serge

Pete you first ? Lol I like the silence of the signing it’s great news who does not like a new signing

Positive pete

Damn.Thought I had it in the bag.Still.A shiny new player.How does he compare to “ Vitinha “ ? Who’s the more highly rated? Where does he fit in? This & many more questions.
Habesha what’s the story?

NORG

The first language at AFC will soon be Portuguese.

Ishola70

He’s not an established player at Porto so it can hardly be called a steal and coup signing at this stage. Potential again.

We all hope that’s the case in the future though.

Time for the cod salt, custard tarts and a bit of Fado in the background Pedro to continue your overwhelming consumption of the Portuguese football.

And is he a Jorge Mendes client? lol

Mr Serge

Pedro are you releasing any content that is not patreon ?? It’s been 11 days now

Positive pete

Serge.hopefully more to come.soon.🤞

WengerEagle

I actually quite like Osimhen. Don’t think that Napoli will sell for less than they paid though so better off looking elsewhere.

Little Mozart

I have no idea who he is. Sounds exciting though

WengerEagle

No problem with the Vieira signing unless it eats into our funds for a ST and the CM.

Mr Serge

Ishola he played in most of the league games for them last season just not in the CL

LoveSausage

This is a strange one. Looks like an exciting player based on the same amount of YouTube watching as Pedro. But that much money for a rotational player?? Let’s hope we’ve earmarked funds for the positions we actually need to fill. I’d hate to walk into next season having to rely on Partey’s and Tierney’s “fitness”.

Ishola70

Mr Serge
“Pedro are you releasing any content that is not patreon ?? It’s been 11 days now”

Pay or suffer. Or maybe not suffer.

They even ask for money on these silly reaction videos on youtube.

Yes you pay to watch me pretend that I have never heard this song before.

WengerEagle

He started 15 in the league Serge. Ishola is right, he’s not an established star for Porto.

Thierry Martinelli

Now, let’s sell 2 players.

Mr Serge

How much do you want anyone to become a patreon anyway ? One off payment or monthly ?

Ishola70

” he played in most of the league games for them last season just not in the CL”

Yes true.

He become more of a fitst team choice season just gone.

No-one has any idea at all that this will be a very good signing unless they are kidding on.

Intriguing.

Danny S

If this signing comes with a very good CM and CF then yeah, could be a good window.

Arteta has a hint of Wenger about him though with transfers. Purposely seems to avoid the ‘obvious’ holes and makes left field transfers.

karim

Vieira
He’s not from Senegal
He plays for Portugal

Mr Serge

We he has started 27 last season 54 games in 2 seasons if you Google him

WengerEagle

Has Arteta signed a single ST since he became manager? Genuine question.

Ash79

Still waiting for Yann M’Villa and Sebastian Frey to sign…not much longer I hope

Ishola70

Correction.

Serge has confused me.

Yes as stated before he is not playing full 90 minutes for many matches.

Refer back to previous.

He is/was not an established player at Porto;

WengerEagle

Serge

15 starts and 12 sub apps. Whoscored says he played half the minutes of Otavio who played 32 times in the league.

WengerEagle

Ash79

Lol, how about Felipe Melo?

Ishola70

Serge take a look.

It shows minutes played in the matches in the last stat.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fabio-vieira/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/537598/plus/0/verein/720

Mr Serge

I bow to your superior googling we lol

LoveSausage

WE,

Nope. He prefers to pay other clubs to take them off our hands.

Since I’d never heard of this Fabio fella until 10 minutes ago, I’m getting excited about the things I can comment on with confidence – his looks. He has one of those “innocent cunt” faces like Bernardo Silva. He should be good at getting the opposition carded.

Leftside

Don’t mind this, providing we still fill the essential holes in the squad. I am optimistic we will though if we are pulling off this profile of player.

WengerEagle

Serge

My tremendous googling skills aside, the point remains that this lad is a gamble on potential. Not against that all all but let’s just hope the funds are still there for our more pressing needs.

MidwestGun

Well.. I like skillful attacking mids like anyone else.. but it does not suggest to me we are replacing Xhaka. Which for me is the problem.. I do think it would be interesting to play a 4-1-4-1 in games we expect to dominate possession but that’s maybe 50% of the games. I do think it is a response to an acknowledgment we have trouble with low block teams. We need to sign a number 9 clearly as we have none. and a player that makes me think Xhaka is done and I would be absolutely thrilled. Anyhow..does this mean Tielemans… Read more »

Mr Serge

We I get that if it’s taking away from finds we have it’s not brilliant but I think the kronkes will back tets again it’s like poker you have gone this far you have to see the river

Mozi

Same folks with the negative vibes

WengerEagle

Tielmans as well as Vieira would leave us very top heavy in midfield Middy.

Tielmans is more offensive than defensive so you would essentially have 3-4 players in Odegaard, ESR, Vieira and Tielemans who all do their best work as the most advanced man in the midfield 3.

We need a defensively secure CM that has verticality to his game. Unlike Xhaka and Elneny.

WengerEagle

Let’s hope Serge.

The lad does look very good and 16 assists in so little game time is exceptional and rare, even if it is Portugal.

MidwestGun

Eagle yep pretty much.. As a piece of the puzzle it could be very exciting but I need to see the whole puzzle.

Samesong

WE what do you think of Joao Palhinha as a DM?

InsideRight

Tielemens is preferred in a central role or a defensive midfield role. His stats are more loaded to defensive output when compared to Maddison. He often plays in the left defensive role that was occupied by Xhaka.

DivineSherlock

He started 15 in the league Serge. Ishola is right, he’s not an established star for Porto.

But Porto arent dumb to put a release clause of 50 million on him , if he wasnt highly rated . For me Olise was still a better choice but I wont shit on him just because he didnt play enough for Porto.

LeMassiveCoq

Weird signing, but exciting none the less..

Almost certain that Pepe will go and Xhara will stay based on this though..

WengerEagle

DS

Not shitting on him at all but £35m is expensive for a prospect. Will look like loose couch change in a few years if he goes on to develop as we all hope.

Olise for £8m was just ridiculous value. He had a great season in the Championship before that, cannot believe they got him so cheap and nobody else was in for him. Remember a poster on here mentioned him every chance they could when he was at Reading, forget who though.

Marko

Porto season ticket holder and Arsenal fan @ruipbcribeiro had this say after I commented on my expertise of the players after watching 12 minutes of Youtube videos

Don’t sell yourself short you’ve been watching him 7 years

EdTheREd

I see him as a replacement for Pepe. How much can we get for him, realistically? £25m? In which case, wages included, it would be almost like for like swap, so that’s a positive.

At 170cm, he will need to build up some muscle pretty soon, unless he’s destined for Cup games in his first Arsenal season, with sporadic PL appearances .

Either way, more news like this, please.

WengerEagle

Samesong

Don’t watch Sporting ever tbh so not sure. Think Fulham and Wolves are at war over him? Looks a decent player.

Kegunner

Tielmans is more defensive but can get good positions up the pitch. A proper deep lying play maker like Ibrahim Sangare or Tolisso would be great.

Marko

No problem with the Vieira signing unless it eats into our funds for a ST and the CM.

I’m reminded of last summer WE where the hope was the 80 odd million spent on White and Ramsdale wasn’t going to affect our need to address the attack and midfield.

WengerEagle

Sangare is a brilliant player. Not so keen on Tolisso who is made of wet bog roll.

Samesong

We really need a forward. I’ll be annoyed if Chelsea buy Nkunku. He looks like a baller.

Leftside

I think Tielemans is the player to play in place of Xhaka, only thing that we still need a player of sufficient quality to replace Partey when he picks up inevitable injuries.

DivineSherlock

WengerEagle Olise for £8m was just ridiculous value. He had a great season in the Championship before that, cannot believe they got him so cheap and nobody else was in for him. Remember a poster on here mentioned him every chance they could when he was at Reading, forget who though. I think it was Pierre though lol. Also I think if we offered this money to Crystal Palace we’d have gotten him but hey Cheers to Fabio Viera , just hope he becomes succesful as his namesake . Googling about him feels like he is Portugal version of ESR… Read more »

WengerEagle

True that Marko.

Wenger used to stockpile on types we didn’t need and ignore our critical problem areas (GK, CDM, CB in the earlier Wengerball years, ST/CDM in the later years).

Venga, Dani

God damn stoked on Fabio Viera but please lets get some physicality and athleticism in the CM and ST positions FFS

WengerEagle

DS

Definitely wasn’t Pierre. He was too busy stroking himself to Ozil 2016 compilations.

Maybe it was Dream 10?

Tom

“I see him as a replacement for Pepe. How much can we get for him, realistically? £25m? In which case, wages included, it would be almost like for like swap, so that’s a positive.” Ed, has someone offered 25m for Pepe? Not to rain on anyone’s parade but we’ve been down this road before. I think it was Leeds( poster, not the club) who compiled the list of all outgoings for a total of 120m awhile back. Guendouzi has been the only one so far from that list we’ve actually sold for real money. Pepe is on 140kpw too….. just… Read more »

Danny S

The Jesus rumours arnt going away.

50m on the Brazilian Lacazette would be sad times. He doesn’t excite me at all.

Marko

Like I said earlier Vieira is good but I think Vitinha made more sense given our needs and he has more starts and more minutes than Fabio

Zacharse

keep signing players mf’ers. we need bodies this season!

The Bard

I think its nonsense that we’ve gone under the radar and signed him. These days every club knows every player. He wasn’t wanted by the bigger clubs and we got a look in. I hope he makes his mark but we will have to wait and see. I doubt he is a worldie but maybe he will be.

EdTheREd

Fabio will be like a son to Paddy when he takes over hahah

T

Taking a quick look at the lad and his profile made me wonder.

Is he being signed to form a midfield trio with partey and ode or are they thinking of him competing with saka for right wing and/or share load with odegaard?

I think we are extremely reliant on those 2 players and if either one had a long spell out last winter we would have been in extreme trouble.

InsideRight

The Bard

Reports last night and this morning had Man Ure and Spuds supposedly keen on him. Liverpool had a first refusal agreement for him with Porto. So arguably there was significant interest in him and other clubs probably wanted to see more of him next season before going balls deep for his release clause. Clearly we’ve taken a chance in the hope his progression continues and that he will offer something for us.

EdTheREd

Anyway folks, can Celtics force Game 7? I think IF they do, they’ll win it.

Mood Hoover

Good profile, may be a break out star but beginning with EL minutes/super sub for low block epl games. Def need a big 9 and improved lb/dm cover. Anything else is bonus territory incl Jesus (who I like tbh)

englandsbest

He looks the bizness, what was needed., more to come.

Greg

Vieira’s style looks very similar to Odegaard. What we are going to do with all that creativity and.no scorers? Could we bring along that large center forward knocking in all the chances on the video? He looked like a player too.

zaco

Osimen is not as good as you think, not better or as good as Tammy

OCGooner

Ash79
Still waiting for Yann M’Villa and Sebastian Frey to sign…not much longer I hope

WengerEagle
Lol, how about Felipe Melo?

Or Etienne Capoue?

InsideRight

I see Raul de Tomas is getting linked with us again. I think he deserves a bigger reputation. Wherever he has gone he has consistently scored goals at least every other game. It suggests to me he can get into the right place at the right time and finish reliably, even for Espanyol. I would be very happy if we landed him. Also when thinking about the midfield, as things stand LT is coming back. If he is used where he plays best, as DM, he could do a good job for us next season and bump up his appeal… Read more »

WengerEagle

Capoue has been good for Villarreal funny enough. Weird career trajectory.

Agree on RDT InsideRight. Every bit as good as most of the strikers we are linked with and would probably cost a fraction of the price because he’s 28 this year.

curse

Viera? yes please, kinda looking like Odegaard backup which makes sense. Also looking like my theory of Jesus coming in to play LWF might be poo unfortunately.
The Smith and Martinels for the left it is then, would still love Scamacca though fingers crossed.

InsideRight

Dumb question time and sorry if it’s been explained elsewhere…..

When Nketiah completes his switch to Ghana, does that mean (assuming he signs a new contract) he no longer counts as part of our English homegrown quota?

Kalle

Tammy and Osimhen are similar type strikers and of arguably similar qualities.. and they could’ve end up turning out together for the Nigerian National team. I like Osimhen better though. From the latest Sky news report, I think we’ll be getting Jesus.

OCGooner

WE
I know. Every time I look at that Villareal roster with Capoue, Coquelin, Lo Celso, Aurier, I think…..really? Fair play, they made it work and got CL semis…….

englandsbest

Quibbles? Doubts?

For those who have yet to cotton on, Arteta is assembling an all-action crew intended to out-run, to out-press, to out-think, to out-last, to out-score – in sync.

Vintage Gun

“I see Raul de Tomas is getting linked with us again. I think he deserves a bigger reputation. Wherever he has gone he has consistently scored goals at least every other game”

I agree. I saw him a bit last season and he has an interesting profile. Quite a handful, strong and a good eye for goal. If available for £25-£30m i’d take a punt.

Vintage Gun

I like the Vieira signing and he was highly rated in the U21 euro’s a year or 2 back . Don’t watch the Portuguese league so don’t know how he’s progressed since. But welcome to Arsenal and good luck!!!

Wicked Willy

I’m amused by the fact that everybody wanted more creativity and goal threat, and we’ve just got a kid whose goal contributions per 90 is on a par with Haaland, Mbappe, Benzema and Nunez, and yet peeps aren’t happy because they can’t figure out how he fits in! I also think we need to revisit the Edu overpays narrative. Martinelli was a snip, Tomi was immense value, Gabriel was very solid, as was Odegaard. We’ve just got a backup keeper for minimal money (let’s see how he fares), a young RW for a 92% discount off of his release clause,… Read more »

InsideRight

Vintage

Apparently Espanyol put a €70m clause on him. That amount is OTT for someone turning 28 in October, but I’m sure we could look to reduce that by offering a player plus cash. Xhaka or LT would knock a bit off the price and be a fit for the Spanish league.

WengerEagle

Espanyol would bite our hand off for £25-30m imo.

Samir

Not against the Vieira signing but…

Do we really need a player similar to ESR/Odegaard?
As long as we get a top winger, ST and CM as well, I’ll be happy.
If he was bought at the expense of one of the above, I can’t see logic in it.

Vieira, Tielemans, Raphinha, Jesus, left back and I’d be extremely happy.

OCGooner

I’m ok with Vieira if part of a plan, especially if his skill set will help unlock low blocks that seem to trouble us – either as starter or impact sub. Seems a similar skill set to Cazorla.

Looking forward to another more defensive minded signing as well to finally end reliance on Xhaka. Tielemans would be a great signing for that role. Hopefully Edu can get that one done soon.

And ST of course, big body back to goal type please. I don’t think Jesus is the answer there.

Mr Serge

Inside right it won’t affect Eddie’s HG status if he plays for Ghana you have to be a player from 18 years or under for 3 years to be hg

Habesha Gooner

That viera signing came out of nowhere. But what is the plan because we already have 2 attacking midfielders. He might be coming in to play the Xhaka role. So is Tielemans. So where does that leave Xhaka? Is he going?

Samesong

Where is ESR position in all of this?

raptora

Willy: “I’m amused by the fact that everybody wanted more creativity and goal threat, and we’ve just got a kid whose goal contributions per 90 is on a par with Haaland, Mbappe, Benzema and Nunez, and yet peeps aren’t happy because they can’t figure out how he fits in!” Dude, could you explain to me why the kid has 26 starts as a 22 yo in a Porto team that he was raised at? He isn’t a 6-7m Martinelli. He is a 22 yo that has 26 starts in 3 seasons and Porto play A LOT of games. 51 games… Read more »

raptora

Habesha, no way he’s coming in for Xhaka. He’s played 90% of his games in AM or Second striker. Then some games on the LM. It’s so odd I swear.

WengerEagle

”Where is ESR position in all of this?”

I really don’t think that Tets overly fancies him to be honest which is a shame and quite concerning.

WengerEagle

I agree that Odegaard being moved back deeper is the likely move that will be made and Partey will be given stricter defensive duties.

Odegaard doesn’t have great verticality to his game though so do not think he is suited to a deeper role where he will be forced to consistently beat a press.

raptora

ESR was already a bit part time player last season. Arteta gave time to Odegaard to settle and once he did, he started the Norwegian 26 times in the league in a row and ESR got literally 0 chances to play in his favorite position. If Arteta is bringing from abroad a competition for Ode, who is his absolute favorite player in the team I feel like, then ESR is left hang out to dry. It’s over for ESR basically.

raptora

If ESR got zero chances to play in AM with just Ode in the team, now with Ode and Fabio why would we even bring in a 3rd player there. Just sell Ode if you’re not happy with him lol.

Aasim

What’s the consensus on retaining Torriera and integrating him into the team ?

Leftside

I feel ESR does his best work centrally and prefer him to Ode but I get the feeling Arteta wants him to alternative with Martinelli off the left where I feel he is less effective.

WengerEagle

I would take ESR over Odegaard as the CAM all day but Ode is Arteta’s pet favourite.

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