Arsenal would 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 Express journalist Ryan Taylor has urged the Gunners to make a swoop.
“I think they’d be silly not to because of the high level of his performances in such a short space of time since making his debut,” he informed GIVEMESPORT.
“I think one of his first games was away at Tottenham last year and that was only at the back-end of last season. Then he destroyed Manchester United in that 4-0 win, scoring, and the same happened on the opening day of the season.”
He price the Seagulls simply £4.5m in the course of the winter switch window’s deadline day and he’s now thought to be value within the area of €20m (£17m), as per CIES Football 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 massively 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 could discover a participant very a lot in that mould with Caicedo.
The 20-year-old gem has set the league alight along with his kind for Brighton.
From simply eight outings in 2021/22, Caicedo ranked as Graham Potter’s best-performing participant with a mean WhoScored ranking of seven.07. He received tackles and 1.2 interceptions per recreation and contributed additional up the pitch with 1.3 photographs and 0.9 dribbles per recreation.
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 is a terrific athlete who makes football look easy. A box-to-box midfielder,” claimed South American soccer skilled Tim Vickery to talkSPORT. “A 12 months in the past he was saying that Kante of Chelsea is his function mannequin however he’s already greater than that. He already provides extra within the last third.
“That kind of box-to-box midfielder that’s very much in the tradition of the England game. Strong, quick, intelligent and cool. He really does look like the genuine article.”
Based on that endorsement alone, Caicedo could actually develop into a Vieira-like beast within the Premier League over the next few years, so Gunners technical director Edu Gaspar should guarantee it’s within the purple and white colors of Islington, fairly 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 era,” he informed Het Niuewsblad (through Sport Witness).
“Caicedo really has everything to become the best Ecuadorian footballer of all time. I think that off the ball, he is indeed somewhat reminiscent of Kante, but on the ball, he resembles Paul Pogba with his flair and his technique.”
With practically lower than 48 hours to go within the switch window, Edu and co should look to lure Caicedo to the Emirates as he could nicely uncover Arsenal’s next Vieira within the 20-year-old, who was additionally lauded as a “machine” by expertise scout Jacek Kulig.
He’d be a unprecedented signing to finish a busy and thrilling summer time of enterprise for the Gunners.
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