Fabio Vieira must significantly improve his performance if he hopes to make a comeback and secure a position in Mikel Arteta’s starting lineup. So far, he has shown no signs of resurgence.
To avoid slowing Fabio Vieira’s growth, Arsenal decided to send him out on loan this summer. In the summer of 2022, the Gunners agreed to pay £34 million for the Portuguese playmaker. Coming off a season in which he scored 6 goals and 14 assists in 27 goals, the Gunners had high expectations for Vieira.
Arteta expressed her excitement about finding and signing such a special talent. “Fabio is a very creative player that will bring high quality and versatility to our attacking play,” he said.
Unfortunately, the Portuguese never lived up to expectations; he was inconsistent, and injuries played a significant role in that. In any case, Arteta granted him permission to return to FC Porto after he failed to establish himself in the starting lineup for two seasons.
While the 24-year-old is attempting to rebuild himself at FC Porto, he has started the last few games primarily as a right winger, and his recent performance has raised concerns. His performance against Benfica, where Porto lost 4-1, drew criticism. Noticias, a Portuguese site, claimed, “Fabio Vieira added nothing to the game.
“Anyone who doesn’t know that the Portuguese player arrived at Dragao from Arsenal and has only seen this game will have a hard time believing it.”
Vieira should hope that his performance against Benfica was merely a bad day at the office and would never happen again. Emile Smith Rowe is consistently putting on fantastic performances at Fulham, and Vieira should have been doing the same in Portugal. Currently is record stands at 5 games, zero goals and one assist.
We should have been raving about his performance in Portugal because if we don’t, he may not be able to return to this Arsenal team, with Ethan Nwaneri gradually gaining a place in Mikel Arteta’s starting lineup in his absence.
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The best course of action to decide his future will be to wait until the end of the season before deciding anything. If his form doesn’t improve then he’ll be back at The Emirates. Then what?
In banking quite often than not bad loans are written off
True, but in football it’s the club and the player that together must agree to a “write off”, the cancellation of a player’s contract in this case.
Should Vieira return and then decide to stay
there’s nothing Arsenal will be able to do about it, unlike a bank that can decide to act unilaterally for loans.
There is a reoccurring theme here. Now it’s Vieira’s turn. All players signed in 22/23 are being criticized on here or have departed. Jesus , Zinchenko, Vieira, Trossard, Kiwior, Jorginho , Turner and Marquinhos costing 186 million euros in total. Could it be concluded that Edu and Arteta did an awful job on the transfer market two season ago?
That’s interesting.
you make a good point. zinny and jesus were decent for a year, but have since fallen off a cliff. Viera, Kivior, and Marquinhos are flat out terrible. Have literally gotten worse since they arrived at Arsenal. I think it’s very fair to question that outlay.
That was a terrible job done by Edu and Arteta. Hopefully our next Sport Director can improve our squad for next season. Obviously, with one exception, (Trossard) none of those players should be included in our team in the future.