{"id":112843,"date":"2025-08-27T03:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112843\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T03:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:37:08","slug":"south-american-football-expert-surprised-liverpool-arent-trying-to-sign-terrific-52m-star-ahead-of-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112843\/","title":{"rendered":"South American football expert surprised Liverpool aren’t trying to sign ‘terrific’ \u00a352m star ahead of Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Arsenal completed the heist of the year by signing Eberechi Eze last week, but Mikel Arteta is still chasing further additions.<\/p>\n

The Gunners have enjoyed a busy summer as Mikel Arteta looks to finally bring the Premier League title to the Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n

Noni Madueke and Martin Zubimendi were major additions, but the cherry on the cake was Eberechi Eze\u2019s arrival from Crystal Palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tottenham Hotspur were set to sign Eze<\/a> in a huge move from Palace, only for Arsenal to swoop in at the last minute.<\/p>\n

Eze was presented as an Arsenal player<\/a> over the weekend and could make his debut against Liverpool this weekend.<\/p>\n

That may not be the end of Arsenal\u2019s spending, though, as Mikel Arteta now looks to bring in another defensive option.<\/p>\n

\"PiieroPhoto by Pau Barrena\/Getty ImagesArsenal given strong Piero Hincapie verdict<\/p>\n

Arsenal are now trying to sign Piero Hincapie<\/a> from Bayer Leverkusen, in another move to bolster the left side of Mikel Arteta\u2019s back line.<\/p>\n

Leverkusen are seeking around \u20ac60million (\u00a352million) for Hincapie, meaning Arsenal may need to dig deep.<\/p>\n

Jakub Kiwior is expected to join Porto<\/a>, paving the way for a new left-sided defender to arrive.<\/p>\n

Hincapie can play as a left-back or centre-back, meaning he will bring similar versatility to Kiwior and Riccardo Calafiori.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old has now spent four years with Bayer Leverkusen, developing into one of the Bundesliga\u2019s top defenders.<\/p>\n

South American football expert Tim Vickery has now given his view on Hincapie, telling Sky Sports<\/a> that he thinks the defender is now a \u2018terrific\u2019 player.<\/p>\n

Vickery admitted being unsure about Hincapie earlier in his career, but has been \u2018proved wrong\u2019 after seeing the Ecuadorian shine.<\/p>\n

Vickery did admit his surprise, though, as he feels that Arsenal already have cover in Hincapie\u2019s two main positions.<\/p>\n

In fact, Vickery suggested that Liverpool could actually do with Hincapie amid their defensive issues this season, but it looks like he will be joining Arsenal instead.<\/p>\n

\u201cHincapie is a left-footed defender, he\u2019s a centre-back who can also play at left back as well,\u201d said Vickery.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not a flyer up the wing kind of left back. He likes to bring the ball out of the defence. I remember the first time I saw him in Ecuador, they threw him in as a teenager, and I had had my doubts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought too spindly, maybe, and he\u2019s got mistakes in him. It\u2019s been great to be proved wrong, because he\u2019s grown and grown and grown and really is a terrific defender. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy little doubt here is, why would Arsenal want to spend so much for a player in this position when they have both Gabriel Magalhaes and Calafiori. So you\u2019ve got cover there in both the positions that Hincapie offers. So it\u2019s a little bit of a surprise to me why it\u2019s Arsenal, and based on what we\u2019ve seen so far in the season, I think you would have thought that this is a player that Liverpool could really do with,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Piero Hincapie can immediately make history at Ecuador<\/p>\n

Liverpool have not emerged as a suitor for Hincapie, meaning Arsenal are unlikely to see him making a move to Anfield.<\/p>\n

Arsenal look to be the most likely destination for Hincapie, and he would make history immediately upon his arrival.<\/p>\n

Hincapie is in line to become the first Ecuadorian to ever play for Arsenal if he does join from Leverkusen.<\/p>\n

30 nations have delivered just the one Arsenal player over the years, from Bosnia and Herzegovina\u2019s Sead Kolasinac to Joel Campbell of Costa Rica, even Liberia\u2019s Christopher Wreh.<\/p>\n

Hincapie would join that list if he does join Arsenal, flying the flag for Ecuador as the South American nation continues to supply the Premier League with talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal completed the heist of the year by signing Eberechi Eze last week, but Mikel Arteta is still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[463,3339,3450,28235,403,99,73654],"class_list":["post-112843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal","tag-english-premier-league","tag-liverpool","tag-piero-hincapie","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tim-vickery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}