Arthur - amazing or shit?

[dockers_strike]

1 hour ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Looks like he's back in full training. Are we going to find out whether he's any good? 

 

He couldn't possibly not be an improvement on what we've seen in our midfield, could he?

 

Well he's brasilian so he should settle in with Alli and Fabinho. Fair play to the lad, he was working hard to get fit when he got injured and it makes you wonder whether the medical team were monitoring him properly if at all.

 

If he brings some improvement to the team and midfield, all the better now he's working his way back.

[SlugTrail]

16 minutes game time and his season will be over.

 

He's shit and we should never have even entertained the idea of signing the malingering twat.

[Megadrive Man]

He'll be like an old signing.

[Daisy]

He's fat and shit

[TheHowieLama]

27 minutes ago, Daisy said:

He's fat and shit

What the hell do you know about being fat and shit??

[CapeRed]

6 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Looks like he's back in full training. Are we going to find out whether he's any good? 

 

He couldn't possibly not be an improvement on what we've seen in our midfield, could he?

Sadly I fear he might be underwhelming.

[Reckoner]

He’s going to be fucking sensational and score eleventy goals wooooooooo!

Na, yeah he’s fucking shit.

[Code]

As long as he looks a bit more like a Brazilian than Lucas, Im happy. 

[Pete]

Does he even exist? 

[Carra_is_legend]

32 minutes ago, Code said:

As long as he looks a bit more like a Brazilian than Lucas, Im happy. 

Lucas was out there on the pitch every time we needed him. 

 

Plus he is PL winner. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

56 minutes ago, Carra_is_legend said:

Lucas was out there on the pitch every time we needed him. 

 

Plus he is PL winner. 

I always think that Phil Neville's handball on the goal-line was a big setback for Lucas. If he'd scored the winner in that derby (after everyone had groaned because Rafa had brought this barely-tried kid on for Gerrard) he would have been an instant cult hero; massive conference boost for him and more fans happy to trust Rafa's judgement. It might even have been enough to help us convert a couple of those disappointing draws in early 2008/09 into wins...

[Scott_M]

He’s going to calmly stroke home the winning penalty in Istanbul. 

[Jose Jones]

2 hours ago, Code said:

As long as he looks a bit more like a Brazilian than Lucas, Im happy. 

I think you will not be happy.

[El Rojo]

3 hours ago, Pete said:

Does he even exist? 

 

All will be revealed. 

[stringvest]

5 hours ago, Carra_is_legend said:

Lucas was out there on the pitch every time we needed him. 

 

and sadly, also when he was the last thing we needed.

[Jairzinho]

Peak Lucas would drastically improve our midfield.

[ZonkoVille77]

We could do with one of Lucas' trademark hat-tricks right now. 

 

Wait, what?

[Code]

6 hours ago, Carra_is_legend said:

Lucas was out there on the pitch every time we needed him. 

 

Plus he is PL winner. 

I wish he had been a bit more like Arthur in that regard. 

[aws]

1 hour ago, Jairzinho said:

Peak Lucas would drastically improve our midfield.

Second name on the team sheet.  

[Reckoner]

In another wild revelation from the investigation into Juventus’ financial tampering, ex-CFO Marco Re has allegedly admitted overpaying for Arthur.

 

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2023/02/juventus-wiretap-reveals-ex-director-admitting-they-overpaid-for-arthur/

 

Now, the Liverpool loanee has reportedly been named by former Juventus chief financial officer Re, who admitted on a wiretapped phone call that the club overpaid Barcelona for Arthur in 2020.

“Think of a player like Arthur, who you paid €75 million to have a capital gain with Pjanic,” he said, according to Corriere della Sera.

“It was clear he wasn’t worth as much, was he?”

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

On 10/02/2023 at 15:31, Jairzinho said:

Peak Lucas would drastically improve our midfield.

Clearly. He was decent Lucas, nothing more nothing less. We have about two decent midfielders at the club now, and one of them just got injured.

[an tha]

Sums up the season really - we brought this Arthur lad in on loan to provide some cover for midfield and likely mostly Thiago - first up his own injury prevents him from being any use and now when he is finally  going to actually maybe be fit and be in consideration for a squad place, and with Thiago injured so cover might be handy - he can't be used at all in our European Cup games because we left him out of the squad.

 

It's beyond parody at this point this season.

[Barrington Womble]

2 minutes ago, an tha said:

Sums up the season really - we brought this Arthur lad in on loan to provide some cover for midfield and likely mostly Thiago - first up his own injury prevents him from being any use and now when he is finally  going to actually maybe be fit and be in consideration for a squad place, and with Thiago injured so cover might be handy - he can't be used at all in our European Cup games because we left him out of the squad.

 

It's beyond parody at this point this season.

I'm not convinced he'll get a go anyway to be honest. 

[an tha]

2 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

I'm not convinced he'll get a go anyway to be honest. 

Might have been some use in Europe - PL i'd say no, but maybe in Europe.

[Reckoner]

On 12/02/2023 at 17:26, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

Clearly. He was decent Lucas, nothing more nothing less. We have about two decent midfielders at the club now, and one of them just got injured.

Lucas was just decent technically but positionally he was brilliant. Every manager he played under started him when fit. He would be hugely useful this season.