Reports: Arthur Melo and Miralem Pjanic have signed contracts with their new clubs

After Arthur Melo and Miralem Pjanic have completed their respective medical examinations, there are only a few steps to be taken before they join their new clubs.

As you know, they sign their new contracts.

And after you’ve done the medical part of the business, you can probably assume that the signature appeared natural on some official club documents.

That is exactly what happened, according to several Italian football journalists.

Fabrizio Romano of Sky Sport Italia and Romeo Agresti of Goal Italia both reported on Sunday evening that Arthur has put his new five-year contract with Juventus on paper that will run until 2025. The latter added that Pjanic also signed his contract with Barcelona. Earlier reports said that Arthur’s contract with Juventus would make a net € 5 million a season. This was seen as an important turning point to convince the 23-year-old Brazilian to leave Barcelona.

It remains to be seen exactly when it is “in the coming hours”. The general mindset is that it will be announced sometime in the next few days when the financial year ends in June. Since this is an amortization, the advantage of doing this now, rather than expecting the actual transfer window to open to the business, is pretty obvious.

And knowing how the coronavirus pandemic will affect the transfer market is pretty understandable if this actually happens now with Arthur’s arrival in two months.

It also makes it clear to you that Maurizio Sarri’s comment that Pjanic should stay until the end of August is fairly due to the fact that Juve’s Champions League commitments are coming to an end. Or, basically, a hint that neither player would change teams immediately with this transfer, since both are currently in the middle of the last weeks of the 2019-20 season.