Ibrox side Glasgow Rangers announced their signing of the 22-year-old on Thursday.
Rangers have not one, but two Patrick Vieira-type midfielders at Ibrox now it seems.
The Gers announced the signing of Joe Aribo on Thursday, with the 22-year-old becoming the seventh new player to join Steven Gerrard’s side this summer.
Speaking to Rangers TV after arriving, Aribo likened himself to Vieira. He said: “I’m quite dynamic, I can get up and down the pitch, get players one vs one, sometimes I can pick a pass and find the back of the net.
“A lot of people say I’m like Patrick Vieira and my old manager said Dele Alli.”
The interesting thing here is that the Ibrox side already had a Vieira-esque midfielder in Glen Kamara, who had a stunning first six months in Glasgow after joining in January.
Kamara’s former manager Neil McCann said to The Record in January: “He was like a mini Patrick Vieira the way he got about the pitch. He’d fling the big leg across, he’d change direction, you couldn’t get the ball off him. He was strong, he took the ball anywhere he wanted to really.”
The Arsenal legend is one of the Premier League’s all-time great midfielders, and won the title on two occasions – including 2004, when he captained the Gunners during the Invincible season.
And it definitely bodes well that Gerrard – who had his fair share of battles with the big Frenchman – now has two players who evoke memories of the legendary midfielder.
The question is, how does he fit them both in?
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