I remember him from his Barcelona days. He had a bright start and was very much hyped, but then him and Pjanic were victims of Barca and Juve wanting to clean their books so they both go shipped the other way in a weird swap deal that somehow also involved money if I remember correctly. If I recall, he didn't want to leave Barcelona. Regardless, he's been sort of muted ever since joining Juventus and fell down the pecking order pretty quickly on top of having numerous injuries.
All in all, I think its a logical move. It seems all the targets we rate and want are, one way or another, not available so the idea of going and spending a transfer fee, in this crazy market, and giving someone a 3+ year contract when we pertinently know we would not go for him in 6 months time makes no sense especially when you don't operate with the knowledge that you have unlimited money to spend. In addition to that, despite not including a buy option in the deal, if he was to surprise Klopp and make himself loved to the point where we want to buy him, it would be a fairly simple deal, I think, because Juventus have pretty much redecorated their whole midfield in the past few windows and they don't seem to want him. They added Pogba, Locatelli, Zakaria, McKennie and now Paredes (him being his direct replacement I think) + they have an extra two promising midfielders coming through the ranks in Miretti and Fagioli.
As for the player himself, Arthur played mainly as a CDM for Juventus, but he can also operate as a CM. The main things he adds to a midfield are dropping low between the two center halves to offer support and passing options, he looks to break lines of pressure with vertical passes (which we are having a nightmare with so far this season), and he also will distribute the ball to the side a lot whenever there's no options through the middle. He is press resistant and sometimes will look to pivot and run a few yards with the ball before dispatching a pass, but you will not see him run with the ball as much you see Naby do for instance. His passing catalogue is decent, but nothing like Thiago or Trent's. He will look for vertical passes that are shorter and more simple in nature than those of Thiago and Trent. Arthur also tend to no participate high up the pitch often, but when he does he can deliver those final passes into the box. I'm guessing we'll see that last point a fair few times simply because we tend to control possession and teams sit back and defend deep against us.
My guess is that Arthur will most probably play the CM and CDM roles considering Hendo is the only senior back up for Fabinho. My big doubts about him are his injuries and his physicality. He did not strike me as a very physical player, but the good news is that he played in Serie A which, in my opinion, is probably the most physical top league after ours so he's not coming here from a league where physicality is very low in comparison to ours.
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