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Arthur Melo came to Can Barça as one of the future midfield leaders. The Brazilian signed in 2018 in exchange for 30 million from Guild with the focus on as a future substitute for Xavi Hernandez. The reality is that the weight of an unstable club has fallen on him and he will leave Barcelona for the Juventus in the middle of an operation financial engineering for the Catalan team to balance their accounts.
The quality of a player touched by a wand in terms of his control over the game, which, above all, he demonstrated during the first season, has lasted two years in the Camp Nou. A question that turns Barça’s dressing room upside down after a season in constant disagreement with all the decisions made by the management of Josep María Bartomeu.
A new movement that does not agree with the thought of Leo Messi and the rest of the teammates, who will see their older midfield next season due to the arrival of Miralem Pjanic. The Bosnian, who will sign with the Catalans in the barter for which the culé directive will obtain 10 million (80 of sale and 70 of expense), but, above all, he will manage to balance accounts that have not agreed for a long time and that have seen the arrival of a FOR HIM in order to alleviate the consequences of coronavirus.
Lucas Ocampos dribbles Arthur Melo at Sevilla – Barcelona
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The locker room led by Messi did not want the sale of Arthur. The Brazilian is a player already integrated into the culé dynamics who, despite some extra-sport slips, was in communion with the Argentine, a vital issue to stay at the club. The halo of the Barça ’10’ has not served to prevent his departure and only further undermines a stability of the star in the entity that is only sustained by Leo’s own love for Barça.
Arthur’s relationship
At first, Messi opened the doors of his internal clan to him, said that he was the player who most surprised him in the dressing room and did everything possible to involve him. All this came in the first part of its premiere as a culé, who had surprised the whole hobby and had established himself in the starting eleven of Ernesto Valverde. He was the fashionable midfielder.
His second year was not being as good. The Brazilian was losing the confidence of the Basque coach and everything went wrong with a controversial injury. Arthur saw how his pubis was affected while snowboarding in the Pyrenees. A getaway that he did without authorization from the club and against the recommendation of the doctors was the beginning of the end that would increase the resentment of the management with him and his attitude.
Arthur, at Neymar’s 2019 birthday party with Thiago Silva
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The arrival of Quique Setién it did not help much to improve his situation. At the press conference that he gave this Friday in the preview of the meeting before the Celtic He has been very clear about his relationship with Arthur. “It is true that there have been things that we have had to emphasize and have tried to do by all means. It is not easy to change things for a footballer that other coaches have told him were very good. He has lacked a bit of continuity but is on the right track, “said the Cantabrian coach.
The player was not to the liking of Setién, but neither did he do his part to improve his situation practically from day one. Last year he left with Rafinha Alcantara to the birthday party of Neymar Jr. a Paris with 48 hours left to play a Classic against Real Madrid. This forever marked the player inside the club’s cupola and his leveling-down has ended by showing him the exit door.
The signing of Neymar
One of the points that can also mark this decision is a possible return of Neymar in the future. The two Brazilians are great friends and the one of the PSG, seeing what has happened with his compatriot, he has seen again what this directive is capable of. Arthur was one of those who encouraged Neymar to return to Can Barça; now there will be one less pressure point to convince you.
This would provoke a chain reaction and increase tension with the dressing room as the players are most interested in Neymar’s return. If the board fails to fix its problems with the Brazilian, the risk of further undermining the confidence of Messi and company could spark a new rebellion. Bartomeu has already had to face one this year after the ‘Barçagat to‘and its strength is rather small if it exploits a new front.
Arthur has traveled to Vigo for this Saturday’s game, but you have permission to go to Turin in the event that the missing fringes of the exchange are closed to pass the medical examination. The instability of Barça has once again found a new point of interest to continue showing that the club is in a permanent crisis that this season may be matched by sports failure.
[Más información: Setién, sobre el caso Arthur: “Confío en la profesionalidad del jugador hasta el final”]
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