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✍️ OFFICIAL Fabio Vieira (Loan)

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Bloodbather

Bloodbather

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db10_therza said:
Especially when you consider Vitinha moved for just 5m more from the same club in the same god damn window.
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The numbers fooled whoever did the signing, I think. He had 15 assists in the league before we signed him so we took him as some sort of playmaking maestro. But it turned out that Vitinha was the one who fit that description.

Vieira is a Bruno Fernandes without the scrappy mentality. Final product guy - has a great shot, can make a good final pass, but not enough impact on the game overall.

I understand taking a gamble on him so I won't talk too much smack about his signing, but he just hasn't developed at all. Still the same player as when we first signed him.
 
Sebastes

Sebastes

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Country: Sweden
Bloodbather said:
The numbers fooled whoever did the signing, I think. He had 15 assists in the league before we signed him so we took him as some sort of playmaking maestro. But it turned out that Vitinha was the one who fit that description.

Vieira is a Bruno Fernandes without the scrappy mentality. Final product guy - has a great shot, can make a good final pass, but not enough impact on the game overall.

I understand taking a gamble on him so I won't talk too much smack about his signing, but he just hasn't developed at all. Still the same player as when we first signed him.
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Agree overall but we paid way too much for a boy not even having had a full season with them. I’m quick to blame Arteta for a lot of transfer business but this was surely an Edu disasterclass.
 
db10_therza

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Yousif Arsenal said:
Vitinha was going to PSG long before that Campos wouldn't let anyone buy him. Fabio isn't bad player I can see him do well in some other leagues too weak for PL easily getting bullied
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He didn’t exactly set the Portuguese league on fire last year (admittedly was injured etc)
 
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bakaboo

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Melquiades said:
Yeah, everyone talks about ‘physicality’ but there are loads of small players who have done well in the PL.

His problem is that he doesn’t run off the ball and doesn’t compete. Passive player who waits for the game to come to him rather than wanting the ball and wanting to make a difference. There were a couple matches where he came out like someone lit a firecracker under his ass and he looked like a totally different player but those were the exception and not the rule. Nice technical skills and ball striking ability but the definition of a player who ‘hides’.
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His problem is more on his physicality. He needs to buildup more muscle and core strength. And I believed he likes to play in the Middle just behind the ST. But in EPL, he will be bullied off the ball, thus Arteta put him on the wing.

Traditional 10 is obsolete, coupled with his poor strength, unable to hold his place in EPL. His final pass is elite level thou. But to maximize his strong point, got to alter the whole system and build the team around him.
 
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bakaboo said:
His problem is more on his physicality. He needs to buildup more muscle and core strength. And I believed he likes to play in the Middle just behind the ST. But in EPL, he will be bullied off the ball, thus Arteta put him on the wing.

Traditional 10 is obsolete, coupled with his poor strength, unable to hold his place in EPL. His final pass is elite level thou. But to maximize his strong point, got to alter the whole system and build the team around him.
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I just don't agree.

To be effective at the highest level in the modern game as an attacking player, you simply have to run and compete. Want the ball, want to make a difference.

This player is just too passive. Doesn't want the ball, doesn't work to make himself open for the ball, and as a result simply doesn't get enough touches of the ball in a position where the team should flow through him offensively.

More strength and physicality would obviously make pretty much any player better, but Vieira hides to such an extent that he was rarely even getting in physical battles or competition for the ball.

Again, there were a couple games here where he looked like he was pissed off and had a point to prove and he raised his compete/intensity level and he looked like a totally different player, and one capable of being an effective PL player. But it would last for one game or one half, and then he'd drift back into the shadows for another period of months.
 
Riou

Riou

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Country: Northern Ireland
Please just leave this summer and we can pretend we only had one Vieira at this club again.

I can't believe we gave him Sir Patrick's song pretty much immediately too, our fans have no shame these days 😭
 
BenTal

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Ornobomb lost all his credibility. First Nelson and then Viera. I want them to be gone. Everyday I see the topic is active, I pray to God that when I open it, I see THE NEWS. But every time I come here, and I get more frustrated and angry. Then I want to attack all #ArtetaOut folks. I am loosing my temper. I may join them soooooooooooooooooooon
 
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