It’s great to see Nuno Tavares doing well for Lazio and hopefully the injury he picked up during the international game won’t keep him out for too long.
But there is no way to see how he is performing in Italy and the question of whether things could have gone differently for him at Arsenal.
It’s not like I don’t have opportunities. He had a lot. He was very raw and didn’t really make the most of those opportunities.
You could see he was talented and had the attributes to be a decent player, but he was, and still is, a bit too chaotic a player for a Mikel Arteta side.
It always tends to start bright in new clubs as well and then go down a bit. He did that at Arsenal and Marseille, so it will be interesting to see if he can maintain that form with Lazio.
Nuno Tavares’ transfer from Arsenal to Lazio is likely to be permanent
Provided a few clauses are met, his loan will become permanent in the summer and he will stay in Italy. Arsenal will pay him back and have a huge sell-on clause included in the Lazio deal.
I think it’s a pretty good deal to be fair. I certainly don’t look at what he’s doing and regret that they were allowed to leave and I can’t imagine there are many people at Arsenal who feel differently.
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