Caicedo could be Arsenal’s next Vieira

Arsenal can be silly to not make a transfer for Moises Caicedo earlier than Thursday’s switch deadline…

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The Brighton and Hove Albion powerhouse has been linked with a swap to the Emirates Stadium in latest weeks and Categorical journalist Ryan Taylor has urged the Gunners to make a swoop.

“I believe they’d be foolish to not due to the excessive degree of his performances in such a brief house of time since making his debut,” he instructed GIVEMESPORT.

“I believe certainly one of his first video games was away at Tottenham final 12 months and that was solely on the back-end of final season. Then he destroyed Manchester United in that 4-0 win, scoring, and the identical occurred on the opening day of the season.”

He value the Seagulls simply £4.5m throughout the winter switch window’s deadline day and he’s now considered value within the area of €20m (£17m), as per CIES Soccer Observatory, who assess the switch worth {of professional} footballers on a scientific foundation.

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Shades of Vieira

The north London giants as soon as had an aggressive and vastly aggressive box-to-box midfielder by the title of Patrick Vieira. He captained the aspect for 3 years and have become a legend, not simply at Arsenal however within the Premier League general, too.

Now the membership might discover a participant very a lot in that mould with Caicedo.

The 20-year-old gem has set the league alight together with his kind for Brighton.

From simply eight outings in 2021/22, Caicedo ranked as Graham Potter’s best-performing participant with a median WhoScored ranking of seven.07. He gained tackles and 1.2 interceptions per sport and contributed additional up the pitch with 1.3 pictures and 0.9 dribbles per sport.

It’s maybe no shock to have seen him likened to N’Golo Kante, who solely final week Vieira namedropped when requested about gamers just like him.

“He’s a terrific athlete who makes soccer look simple. A box-to-box midfielder,” claimed South American soccer knowledgeable Tim Vickery to talkSPORT. “A 12 months in the past he was saying that Kante of Chelsea is his position mannequin however he’s already greater than that. He already provides extra within the closing third.

“That type of box-to-box midfielder that’s very a lot within the custom of the England sport. Sturdy, fast, clever and funky. He actually does seem like the real article.”

Based mostly on that endorsement alone, Caicedo might actually turn into a Vieira-like beast within the Premier League over the following few years, so Gunners technical director Edu Gaspar should guarantee it’s within the crimson and white colors of Islington, relatively than the blue and white tones from the south coast.

Ecuadorian soccer historian and statistician Enrico Castro-Montes has added additional weight to that comparability, claiming that the Ecuador worldwide was “a cross between Kante and Pogba.”

In his personal nation, he’s actually seen because the crown jewel of a brand new technology,” he instructed Het Niuewsblad (by way of Sport Witness).

“Caicedo actually has the whole lot to turn into one of the best Ecuadorian footballer of all time. I believe that off the ball, he’s certainly considerably paying homage to Kante, however on the ball, he resembles Paul Pogba together with his aptitude and his approach.”

With almost lower than 48 hours to go within the switch window, Edu and co should look to lure Caicedo to the Emirates as he might properly uncover Arsenal’s subsequent Vieira within the 20-year-old, who was additionally lauded as a “machine” by expertise scout Jacek Kulig.

He’d be a rare signing to finish a busy and thrilling summer season of enterprise for the Gunners.

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