Miralem Pjanic

[serghei]

Yeah no... It was purely a creative accounting move. Anything else is just bullshit and yes it was always going to be a bad deal for us.

Pretty much it.

 

[KingLeo10]

Would take Arthur over this bum.

 

[Katarina1]

Funny how players could underperform for years under EV and all the blame went to the manager on here, yet it only takes a few bad appearances under Koeman for someone to be written off or heavily criticized.

 

[Horatio]

Funny how players could underperform for years under EV and all the blame went to the manager on here, yet it only takes a few bad appearances under Koeman for someone to be written off or heavily criticized.

Not sure if true. Most players that underperformed under Valverde got blasted as well: Rakitic, Coutinho, Suarez, Pique, Griezmann, Busquets, Umtiti, Sergi Roberto.

Id say the only player where that might have applied is Semedo, where many tried to explain his performance with the tactics.

 

[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

Would take Arthur over this bum.

+1000 Arthur is soooo much better than this turtle

 

[Andresito]

A more vertical, albeit worse overall, version of Rakitic.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

He sucks defensively. The softest player ever. Rakitic and Busi are beasts compared to him.

Offensively he is better.b

 

[JamDav1982]

He sucks defensively. The softest player ever. Rakitic and Busi are beasts compared to him.

Offensively he is better.b

Busi is not a beast compared to anyone and defensively is constantly pulled out of postion.

 

[raedkuwait]

Good game

 

[Katarina1]

class player

 

[te amo barca]

Ran the strings today in midfield, tidy one-touch passing.

 

[Horatio]

Worth the swap just to see the chemistry with Messi. Messi didnt like Arthur.

 

[serghei]

Good game, but let's see him vs a side who actually is dangerous on the counter-attack. Still, good that he can boss it vs weaker sides. It's something that shouldn't be taken for granted.

 

[JamDav1982]

Worth the swap just to see the chemistry with Messi. Messi didnt like Arthur.

Arthur would have turned away from a lot of the passes Pjanic plays to Messi.

There is a huge difference in the two and how they play looking forward.

 

[serghei]

He does make more progressive passes than Arthur. Still, if he tries these passes vs a better team, and they don't go through well, it's gonna be a nightmare. So, risk management will need to be spot-on for him. Too many fancy difficult passes will put his defensive ability to test since many players will be up. And if it doesn't check out... we're gonna have trouble.