loan with Fiorentina last season and the
Arsenal boss believes the club have recruited a
player "at the top of his game"
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has labelled
the season-long loan signing of goalkeeper
Emiliano Viviano as a "no-brainer".
The 27-year-old joined the Gunners in a
deadline-day switch from relegated Palermo
having enjoyed a loan spell the preceding
season with Serie A side Fiorentina - keeping
11 clean sheets in the process.
Wenger is delighted to have signed the Italian,
who he believes is playing at his peak, and
revealed that the club were desperate to bring
in a third goalkeeper as cover and competition
for Wojciech Szczesny and Lukasz Fabianski.
"He comes to the club at the top of his game.
It was a very good deal for us at a good
moment, I think it was a no-brainer as well,"
the 63-year-old told Arsenal Player .
"With two goalkeepers available for the
Premier League and all the competitions we
face, we felt we were a bit short because
sometimes you have injuries and sometimes
you need to rest one of the goalkeepers.
"At the moment, Wojciech is number one
unless I decide otherwise. They are all
competing for the place of the number one. At
the moment, one and two are Wojciech and
Fabianski. After, maybe I will rotate.
"Viviano is a highly-rated goalkeeper in Italy so
we have three goalkeepers that are very
compact quality-wise."
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