The FC Barcelona has entirely tied to Arthur Melo and could do official the signing this Tuesday. The midfield player of the Grémio of Carry Cheerful already sacked of the Brazilian club and would arrive the Wednesday to Barcelona to sign his new agreement and to incorporate to the pre-season when this initiate .

In this way, the FC Barcelona will do official the first signing of the summer. A bet of Robert Fernández, ex technical secretary of the Barcelona club, that obtained an option of purchase by value of something but of 30 million euros so that Arthur arrived to the Camp Nou as one of the players with a more promising future.

To his 21 years, Arthur has turned into the absolute leader of the Guild in the centre of the field, but now will have to adapt to the style of game of the FC Barcelona. The Brazilian is a player very aseado technically and with a profile of football that fits with the philosophy of possession practised in the Masia.

The big advantage of Arthur Melo regarding some signings of the past season is that his incorporation will close very soon, by what the player will be able to initiate the pre-season with the group to integrate with his new mates and with the technicians, that expect a lot of him of face to the future.

In fact, the signing of Arthur Melo was planned so that his arrival did effective in January of 2019, but the drops of Andrés Iniesta and Paulinho, as well as the big advantage that supposes can does pre-season with the team have precipitated that the Barça pay something more in return to be able to have he in July.

Arthur will have to adapt

It is little usual that the FC Barcelona fiche to a player of the Brazilian league to incorporate him directly to the staff without that it have gone through any another European team. True is that sucedió with Neymar and with Yerry Mina, but always under exceptional circumstances: the first arrived with the poster of crack and the second advanced his signing by the course of Javier Mascherano. In this sense, Arthur will have to adapt directly to the European elite.