If Arsenal really want to sign Arthur, and the belief is they do through Mikel Arteta, then something is going to have to change, and quickly.
That’s what TuttoMercatoWeb bring to the table on Thursday, claiming the negotiations surrounding the Brazilian’s move to the Gunners are ‘currently on standby’.
As things stand, ‘Juventus have not yet given the green light’ for him to leave in January, and both they and Max Allegri have ‘in fact been adamant’: Arthur will move ‘only if a high-level substitute arrives and, above all, only with a formula longer than the six month contract initially offered’ by the London side.
The problem is, ‘without the certainty of having a place in the Champions League, the Arsenal board don’t seem willing to invest for next season today’.
This means the current offer remains the same, which is a loan until June, ‘even onerous, with the wages entirely at their expense, but nothing more’.
Juventus ‘aren’t convinced and under these conditions it will be difficult to give the OK’, and all this ‘despite the agreement in principle already defined for days between Arthur and Arsenal’.
Basically, ‘only a more substantial relaunch from London will therefore be able to rekindle the negotiations’.
