01 Sep 2022 09:48:57
Hi ed. Is it true about arthur from juve on loan?

{Ed002's Note - Arthur Melo (CM/DM) Available - has not worked out in Europe. Barcelona skinned Juventus of Pjanic and cash and it has largely been a disaster in Turin. Juventus want to revamp the midfield with Arthur, McKennie, Ramsey and Rabiot all seen as surplus to requirements. All are for sale and all can be used in exchanges. The problem remains finding takers for the likes of these players who pull a total of €600k in weekly wages will be difficult - but there are interested clubs out there. Arsenal have asked after taking Arthur on loan - and that might be attractive if a buyer can't be found and Arsenal were to pay his wages. I am sure there is knocking on the door of St James Park. Valencia off a solution but no agreement on fee just yet. I understand he has been considered by Liverpool but Klopp has ruled out any additions.

1.) 01 Sep 2022
01 Sep 2022 13:15:49
Lots of ifs and buts on whether Arthur will be a success. Particularly maintaining fitness and pace of EPL. However, like the out of the box thinking from the recruitment team, definitely worth the rolling of the dice, particularly with so many Brazilians/ South Americans to welcome him. Also like how this went under the radar and no one saw it coming, despite some journos saying we’ve been tracking the lad for some time. Without the buy option, looks to be a stop gap until the main targets are secured. But welcome to Liverpool Arthur, I hope you smash it here.

2.) 01 Sep 2022
01 Sep 2022 14:57:20
Lets hope he's better than Sahin, Caulker or Kabak. Im never too confident on the success of our last minute loan deals.

3.) 01 Sep 2022
01 Sep 2022 15:30:48
The only problem with no buy option is that Juve could charge us a colossal fee if he kills it and we decide we want to keep him.

4.) 01 Sep 2022
01 Sep 2022 19:32:28
Very Dangerous loan, with us trying to go young and getting teenagers Elliott and Carvalho, among other young players if my memory is correct, that guy partied in barcelona hard enough to bring back images of Ronaldinho and Deco days, not exactly someone you want to be around impressionable teenagers, thought Peredes of PSG would had been better option.

5.) 01 Sep 2022
01 Sep 2022 21:08:09
mfils - that's a good point. I would have thought if we were going to bring in a midfielder on loan it'd be more of a Milner/ Henderson type not another pseudo-Thiago cos Elliot and Carvalho are the ones who will bring that creativity and technical ability to the middle of the park.

anyways it's an extra body. Worse case is that he is injured at the same time as everyone else. Middle case is he rotates in and out of the injury room with the other midfielders so we always have 4-5 available. Best case he fulfils his potential in a season and helps us!

6.) 01 Sep 2022
01 Sep 2022 22:34:49
Guys, he's supposed to be a defensive midfielder with very good passing range and ability. Someone to backup or play next to Fabinho - isn't that what everybody wanted?

It's a loan with no option to buy, so yes it's a stop gap, and clearly not seen as a long term solution by the club. If we go by several rumours, the club has other plans.

7.) 02 Sep 2022
02 Sep 2022 01:24:06
@ArAy, just because we got what we wanted doesn’t mean that now we have it we don’t want something else and that we didn’t really want what we said we wanted 5 minutes ago.

From my perspective I said, at the start of the window, about 20 years ago I think, that I thought we were short of cover for number 6. Well, despite the board, and everyone connected with it naming literally dozens of midfielders nobody actually mentioned Arthur until after he had got on a flight to Liverpool yesterday morning, the irony being that he covers the position that we needed cover for in the first place.

I think he is a very good option. Good player (from the very little I’ve seen) and fills that gap we tend to have between the teens and the over 30 brigade. Interesting that we’ve covered our a#se in the end with the option to buy at the end of the season. I suspect he might be a good fit.

8.) 02 Sep 2022
02 Sep 2022 10:40:35
Being reported there is an option to buy at the end of the loan. £37.5m over 2 years.