Hi Miralem
The much-discussed exchange of the last period on the Turin-Barcelona axis is finally official.
Arthur Melo will be a Juventus 2020/2021 player, Miralem Pjanic will instead go the opposite way and will pass from churning out assists for Cristiano Ronaldo to dialogue with Leo Messi & C.
The operation must certainly be split into two completely different sections.
The first, the financial side.
The two players, valued beyond the real market value (does anyone want to contradict this?), Generate fundamental capital gains for both teams to “fix” the balance sheets, as it increasingly happens in the contemporary era.
It is absolutely no coincidence that the operation takes place on June 29, just in time therefore to bring the accounting movement back into the Juventus balance sheet at the end of June 30, 2020.
Absolutely perfect timing, technically flawless financial transaction.
Welcome Arthur
The second, however, the technical side.
As I happened to comment even hot last night in the Roman studios of SportItalia, if Juventus had had to treat Arthur Melo exclusively for cash, with about 80 million euros available to spend (72 million euros fixed + 10 variable) the name of the Brazilian midfielder would not have appeared even in the top 10 market goals of Sarri’s team, you have to bet on it.
The current number 8 of Barcelona is definitely a good prospect player who has plenty of time to grow and prove his worth in Turin. To date, however, that figure by Top Player is absolutely not worth and it is not even comparable to the international and experience levels reached by Miralem.
Its value is obviously closely related to the need to make capital gain (now or never) from the management of the Old Lady with the sale of Pjanic.
The hope of all Juventus fans is that they will not be faced with yet another market operation of the Paratici Nedved axis (after those of Danilo, Rabiot, Pellegrini and Ramsey) dictated more by budgetary reasons (zero and / or parameters obsessive search for capital gains) that gives technical tactics actual issues.
For now Sarri. in a press conference on the eve of tonight’s difficult match against Genoa, he tried to dribble the speech.
Midfield emergency
Pjanic, although practically in all respects a former future, remains at this moment the technically best equipped midfielder within the black and white squad.
With Khedira out of order, Ramsey with alternate plates, cryptic Rabiot and discontinuous Matuidi, if we exclude the more than positive performance of Bentancur’s last period, Sarri will have to hope in all possible ways that Pjanic will be the real professional until the end, honoring the black and white shirt until the last day of the contract. The last part of the Juventus season cannot be separated from the Bosnian talent.
If it had been possible, of course, this operation should have been made official only at finished tournaments, trying not to distract the environment in the meantime.
But the budget deadlines, once again, have made it the mistress.
Sarri now has an even harder job, from here to the end, to keep the midfield level high despite the evident emergency on several fronts: tactical, technical and mental.
Good luck Mister, it won’t be easy at all.
@stefanodiscreti
