BARCELONA – The Barcelona announced this Monday the transfer of the Brazilian midfielder Arthur Melo to Juventus for 72 million euros, plus 10 million in variables.
The player will remain in the Catalan club until the end of the official competitions in which the Barça team is involved (LaLiga and the Champions League).
Confirmation of the arrival agreement of the Bosnian midfielder is expected soon. Miralem Pjanic al Barcelona.
The 23-year-old Brazilian arrived at Barcelona two summers ago from the Porto Alegre Guild in exchange for 31 million euros and some variables of nine million more.
He participated in 71 games as Barça (47 in LaLiga, 10 in the Cup, 13 in the Champions League and one in the Spanish Super Cup) and has scored four goals in this period. In his stage with the Barcelona, Arthur Melo He has won a League and a Super Cup.
In addition to a sports decision, the operation is framed in the economic needs of the Barcelona, which has a very burdensome accounting due to the losses produced by the COVID-19 crisis that will prevent it from meeting its budget.
Barça, who paid 31 + 9 million euros to the Guild two years ago for the player, who signed until June 2024, had about 20 million euros left to amortize and the profit on the operation will exceed fifty.
In the first moment, Arthur did not want to abandon the Barcelona, but the economic offer of the Juventus He has finally decided on the player, who, due to favorable taxation in Italy, could initially double his profile and triple it in the final part of his contract.
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BENEFITS
Arthur will leave an accounting profit of 50 million euros on the balance sheet of the Catalan club, who paid 32 million for his transfer to the Guild in the spring of 2018.
The official price of his transfer was 31 million euros fixed plus variables that could reach 9 million, of which only one has been disbursed for the league title last year.
Given that Juventus will pay 72 million for their incorporation (in the balance of this, possible variables are not counted) and that Barcelona had already amortized about 12 million of his transfer, the benefit for the Barça club will reach those 50 million indicated.
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