Like a new signing
Arsenal's first signing of last summer caught almost everyone off guard as Fabio Vieira was brought in from Porto. With the way the transfer market works these days there tends to be weeks in which the hype train around new players can begin to gather pace, but maybe because Vieira's arrival was so immediate, he doesn't quite seem to have had the same treatment.
In fact it's probably fair to say that in and among all the discussion of Arsenal's lack of depth in the attacking areas, it has been forgotten that they have a player who we've not seen the best of, already in the squad. Vieira came to north London with a fractured foot that robbed him of a pre-season, and with this mid-season break, Arsenal's coaching staff have been keen to put that right. The Portuguese midfielder has been adjusting his physicality to the demands of the English game.
