Arthur Melo landed in Barcelona this market estival by more than 40 million euros, pertinent of the Guild of Carry Cheerful. The Brazilian arrived to Can Barça to reinforce a centre of the field culé that after the courses of Xavi and Iniesta needed to a brain that linked with the ones of up.

Arthur has surpassed any expectation that could have of him with grow. In only some months has showed that, unless they twist a lot the things, goes to be the owner of the midfield of the Barça during a lot of years.

The defeat against the Seville in Glass left very few positive notes, but definitely one of them was the party of the carioca. Arthur was the best of the culés and did a party sensacional. The Brazilian was the master and gentleman of the centre of the field of the Barcelona and with his passes and his controls did the delicidas of all the fans of the Barça.

The partidazo of Arthur also could appreciate to level purely statistical. The '8' of the team barcelonista was the player that more passes hit gave, with 62; the one who more occasions of goal did, with two; the one who more good dribblings completed, with five; the one who more recoveries made, with 8; and the one who but entrances successfully did, with 2. Also it was the player that more passes failed and the one who more balloons lost, but goes in inside the normal taking into account the quantity of balloon that kneaded and the importance that had in the game of attack culé.

It remembered to the best Xavi

Although Arthur arrived to the just Barcelona the summer in which it left Iniesta and even decided to put his number, the 8, the Brazilian remembers more to another icon culé. The ex of the Guild remembers increasingly to Xavi Hernández, so much in his movements as in his way to play.

In front of the Seville, to whiles, seemed that Xavi had gone back to the Barça and had put the number 8 to his back. Arthur is this natural substitute of Xavi that the Barça carries looking for since it left the one of Terrassa. With 22 years the future and the midfield of the Barça are his.