Arsenal: Lucas Torreira’s ‘scared’ isn’t about actual fear

The media circus is eating up Lucas Torreira’s father’s comments about his son being ‘scared’ to come to Arsenal. Let’s clarify a bit.

Arsenal have signed Lucas Torreira, and everyone knows that. So anyone out there trying to say it could fall through is just an instigator and doesn’t need to be heeded. Torreira postponed his medical because he’s at the freaking World Cup.

Unsurprisingly, Torreira is also a bit nervous to be moving from a smaller club like Sampdoria to a massive club like Arsenal.

His father, who also confirmed that Torreira was moving to the Emirates, pointed out that they are ‘scared’ of the move, and of adjusting to the language and the customs and culture without losing their own.

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And of course, that one word – ‘scared’ – is being exploited by the media and turned to make Torreira look unsure of the move. As if, all of a sudden he’s gotten cold feet, and won’t move at all.

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Let’s be clear about this – there are different kinds of scared. Torreira’s scared does not indicate a fear of playing for the team itself. Torreira is, by nature, a fearless player on the pitch and, believe it or not, playing at the World Cup and playing at the Emirates is going to be the same general game. It’s still football.

The scaredness that his father is talking about has nothing to do with being on the pitch, but rather with being in a new home. It’s an intimidating thing. We saw a similar effect with Gabriel Paulista, who had to learn the language and the way of the city.

We also saw that Gabriel was not affected in his individual play. He was still fearless, intense, and stoic. He just struggled a bit with communication, but he had nothing but wonderful things to say about the whole ordeal and I still question why he was sold.

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Torreira isn’t scared to play for this club. Maybe there’s some reverence there, but that’s about as far as it goes. He knows this game, he’s played this game his whole life, and he will play it just as well with the Gunners. End of story. There’s no reason to make any more out of this.