Arsenal sun yi nasarar sanya hannu kan Bruno Guimaraes daga Newcastle United, wani canja wuri da manaja Mikel Arteta ya yi imanin zai tura tawagar sa zuwa mataki sabon — bayan wani tarihin kakar wasa da Gunners suka ci nasara a Premier League a karon farko cikin shekaru 22 kuma suka kai wasan karshe na UEFA Champions League, inda Paris Saint-Germain ya doke su.

Me ya sa Guimaraes?

Arteta ya bayyana burin sa tun karshen kakar wasa ta baya: Arsenal dole ne su girma su zama karfin gaske. Sanya hannu kan dan Brazil dan shekara 28 yana tsakiyar wannan hangen nesa, yayin da kulob din ke bin abin da Arteta ya bayyana a matsayin kai tawaga zuwa "mataki daban."

Damuwa ta musamman kafin sabuwar kakar wasa ita ce zurfin da karfin layin tsakiya. Arsenal sun buga wasanni 63 a dukkan gasa a kakar wasa ta baya, kuma jadawalin da bai tsaya ba ya yi tasiri sosai. Martin Zubimendi daga karshe an tsige shi daga tawagar farko a lokacin wasannin karshe, yayin da Declan Rice — wanda ya buga mintoci mafi yawa fiye da duk wani dan wasan Arsenal — yana dawo daga Kofin Duniya inda ya taimaki England ta kai wasan dab da karshe, yana tare da matsalar hamstring a lokacin hutu na bazara.

Christian Norgaard, wanda aka sanya hannu kan sa a bazara ta baya, bai samu amincewar Arteta ba, inda ya buga wasanni bakwai ne kawai na Premier League da kuma fara wasan daya kafin ya koma Everton. Wannan rashin wanda za a dogara da shi ya bar Arsenal cikin halin da ba daidai ba a lokacin da ya fi muhimmanci.

Abin da Guimaraes ke kawo a Emirates

Guimaraes yana ba da irin nau'in yiwuwar samunsa da tasiri da Arteta ke so. Tun ya shiga Newcastle a 2022, dan Brazil din ya rasa wasanni 16 kawai na Premier League — rikodin ban mamaki. Bambancin da kasancewarsa ke yi yana bayyane: yawan nasarar Newcastle yana tashi daga kashi 12.5 zuwa kashi 50.7, maki a kowace wasa daga 0.7 zuwa 1.7, kuma matsakaicin kwallaye da aka ci daga 0.8 zuwa 1.9 lokacin da Guimaraes yana fili, a cewar bayanai daga Opta.

Ya kammala kakar wasa ta baya a matsayin mai ci kwalla mafi yawa na Newcastle a gasar da kwallaye tara, ya kuma ba da taimako hudu ga Brazil a wasanni biyar da ya fara a Kofin Duniya. Duk da rasa wasanni shida saboda matsalar hamstring a karshen kakar wasa, har yanzu yana cikin manyan 'yan wasan biyar a Premier League don tura kwallaye cikin layin tsaron abokan hamayya (46) da kwallaye masu zurfi (21). Sigogi 998 da ya yi karkashin matsanancin matsi sun kore duk tawagar Newcastle, suna nuna yadda yake son daukar alhakin a mafi wahalar lokuta.

Jagoranci da riba ta ƙananan matakan

Bayan kididdiga, Guimaraes ya zo a matsayin shugaba ta halitta — wani abu Arteta ke daraja kamar yadda yake mai da hankali ga lambobi. Dan Brazil din ya jagoranci Newcastle ya zama jarumi marar misali a St James' Park, inda ya gina alaka mai zurfi da magoya baya da abokan wasa. Ma'aikatan kulob din sun bayyana shi a matsayin mutum "mai wahayi."

Arsenal sun riga suna da ƙungiyar jagora mai ƙarfi a kusa da kyaftin ɗin kulob Martin Odegaard, kuma Guimaraes zai ƙara wata muryar iko a layin tsakiya da kuma ya haɗa da Rice, Zubimendi, Eberechi Eze, Mikel Merino, Myles Lewis-Skelly, da Ethan Nwaneri. Gasar wuraren zama za ta yi zafi — daidai yanayin da Arteta ke bukata.

Da sashen likitanci ya samu gyara kafin sabuwar kakar wasa da kuma tawaga da aka ƙera don yin fafatawa a kowace gaba, Arsenal suna caca cewa Guimaraes shi ne ƙarshen ɓangare wanda ke canza tawagar da ta ci gasar zuwa gaske karfin Turai.