Arthur Melo woke up the interest of Robert Fernández, previous technical secretary of the FC Barcelona, thanks to his big performances with the Guild of Carry Cheerful in the Brazilian championship. This produced does some months, moment in which the Barcelona club activated the machinery to bring him to the Camp Nou.
The FC Barcelona tanteó to the player and to his surroundings and the answer was positive, by what the following step was the complicated: convince to the Guild with a succulent offer to be able to fichar to the Brazilian. The Barça, in place to opt by ficharle directly, proposed an option of purchase with an advance of some 4 million euros.
The Barcelona aim was to block the signing of Arthur by another club and ensure his Barcelona presence in the future. The operation carried out of this form so that the signing of Arthur, that pactó by 30 million euros, appeared in the economic exercise of the season 2018-19 esquivando the fetters of the fair play financial.
The main idea was that Arthur put to the orders of Ernesto Valverde in January of 2019 and like this pactó with the Guild. However, the circumstances changed the plans of the Barça: Andrés Iniesta announced his goodbye, André Gomes became transferible and, in the last week, Paulinho confirmed his course.
Reasons of leftovers so that the FC Barcelona opted for advancing the arrival of Arthur to this summer, something that the Guild wanted to avoid and by what asked an economic compensation. This economic compensation has been of one million euros, by what the fixed part has happened of 30 to 31 'kilos'.
Arthur has paid the 'recargo'
So big is the motivation of Arthur for playing what before in the FC Barcelona that, according to the informations published by Sportive World, the Brazilian midfield player has decided to put this extra million of his pocket so that the Barcelona club do not have to spend more money of the planned. Something that speaks very positively of the attitude of the footballer.