Fabio Vieira joined Arsenal last season after an impressive campaign with FC Porto in Portugal and was expected to be in top form for the Gunners.
However, the Portugal U21 star struggled to get playing chances and seems too fragile for the Premier League.
Many Arsenal fans never knew who he was until he joined their club and the Gunners have improved their options with two more midfielders in this transfer window.
This makes it much harder for him to get first-team chances next season and there have been suggestions that he should leave on loan this summer.
However, Arsenal correspondent for Football London Kaya Kaynak says the midfielder will likely stay at the Emirates and Mikel Arteta blames himself for the Portuguese struggles.
He responded to a fan in a Q&A session:
“I have to say I would be surprised to see Fabio Vieira loaned this season. He may not have had the best of debut seasons but Mikel Arteta is still a huge fan. The Arsenal boss blames himself for Vieira’s slow start to life in England.
“It’s also worth remembering that Vieira’s preseason last year was massively disrupted by injury.
“Hopefully, if he can get a bit more of a rhythm going this time around he can hit the ground running and provide Arsenal with an option to rest and rotate Odegaard.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
We did not see much of Vieira last season, so fans would not be surprised if he is sent out on loan.
However, the final decision lies with the managers and we expect they will make the right choice for his development.
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Arteta thinks there’s a player in there, there isnt. A loan would be futile, he has not got the tools to play premier league football. Cut our loses now.
Arteta blames himself for Viera’s slow start it reads in the article.
How about blaming the player for his limp, timid, and dull performances in several positions. Pepe wasn’t spared for better production, so why is Vieira getting excuses from the manager?
Vieira lacks the mentality, backbone, and will; other undersized players have impacted their team’s play, don’t excuse Vieira. Can’t remember last time he was physical or stuck a leg in, too soft and lamb-like for PL midfielder.
Sometimes managers make mistakes, and Vieira is a Willan-type mistake. Loan to raise value then sell to recoup losses. Rather see an academy player as 5th winger or 3rd CAM, or 3rd choice CM.
Send him back to portugal where he si highly regarded. He will explode there and get better value for an onward sale next campaign. His place is not in the PL.
As a Club, I think we don’t have that time to start waiting for someone to prove himself, Send Fabio Viera on Loan if he doesn’t improve, we will Suger coat him and put him for sale.
Fabio is the reason Smith Rowe didn’t see much game time. Fabio is blocking Smith Rowe’s progress.
Remember Smith Rowe was far much better than Martineli in 2021/2022 season.
Yes that is worrying that Vierra was trusted more than ESR.
Agreed
Sell him at a loss.
Weak
I don’t like this question please. Who is he going to benched? Not only loan, but with a permanent transfer. Better still, sell him even on credit.
Sell now , don’t wait , he is so soft for Premier league . A lazy guy as well.
Can’t see a loan after one season. Needs to be tested in the first 6 months and maybe consider it in January.
I’m hoping he’s worked on his weaknesses – he has some serious weapons to his game, but he’s struggling to use them. Imo he needs to be better at finding space so he’s not getting hit so often, and I don’t think he should be playing deep in CM at this stage – he’s not strong enough.
If he can build some confidence, then maybe in the future he could transition to cm, in the way bernado did at City, but he needs to be comfortable just playing in the EPL first.