Arsenal: Did Lucas Torreira bring enough ‘garra charrua’ to share?

Arsenal have officially announced Lucas Torreira, and the main thing he is bringing us? Garra charrua. Let’s hope he brought enough to share.

He’s heeeeeeeere. Arsenal have finally announced Lucas Torreira, the marquee summer signing that none of us knew we needed as of, like, six months ago, but who is now the greatest thing ever.

And naturally, we are all combing over the initial interviews and pictures and dreaming of the day we get to see him wreck Kevin De Bruyne in the midfield. Because that is what dreams are made of.

Torreira was asked at length about his ‘garra charrua,’ a Uruguayan concept of what is inside their international footballers. And while Torreira wasn’t sure how to explain it at first, what he came up with was pretty damn amazing.

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"“‘Garra charrua’ means that we give all we have inside. We give all we have to our football, our jersey and our country. We do our best because every time we enter the pitch we represent our family and friends, the most important people for us.”"

That is how he described it via Arsenal.com, and he went into more length because the interview was essentially only about this, but it’s this statement in particular that I want to focus on and I think everyone knows why.

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Because that is exactly what the Gunners are missing. They are missing ‘garra charrua.’ And I get that they aren’t Uruguayan, so they don’t understand it, but strip away the name and the specificity and that is exactly what any fan will tell you is what this club needs.

They need to do their best every time they enter the pitch. They need to give their all. Verbatim, that is what you’d hear if you went back over the last five years and asked someone what the team lacked.

Torreira is bringing that in his own capacity, so I want to know if he’s brought enough to share, because whatever he wants to call it, his team mates are going to need it. However that can be accomplished is fine with me.

So many times we have talked about how, if the Gunners could play their best every time they were on the pitch, there would be no stopping them. It’s just been an impossible ask.

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Maybe Torreira can provide some left-overs, if he has too much garra charrua to use all by himself.