Massimiliano Allegri has revealed that Arthur will be punished for being late for this morning’s training session, meaning the Brazilian’s off-the-pitch issues in Turin continue.
The Brazilian joined Juventus from Barcelona in the summer of 2020 for €76m.
However, he’s never been a regular starter in Turin, having played just 40 games across all competitions with the Bianconeri.
He signed with Juventus when Maurizio Sarri was in charge of the Serie A giants, but when he arrived in Turin in August, the Tuscan tactician had gone already, with Andrea Pirlo coming in as his replacement.
Arthur played 32 games under Pirlo but missed the first few matches of the current campaign after undergoing surgery in July.
The Brazilian has only played eight games across all competitions under Max Allegri this season and will miss tomorrow’s match against Venezia because he was late for this morning’s training session, so Allegri decided to punish him.
“Arthur was unlucky this morning, he was late, so he wouldn’t be called up,” Allegri said.
“Being late the day before a match is not fine, so he won’t travel with the team. These things happen. He will return to training from Tuesday.”
This is not the first time Arthur has been involved in off-the-pitch matters.
In April, he was one of the three players suspended by Juventus for attending a private party at Weston McKennie’s house with Paulo Dybala.
They broke the Nationwide curfew that was in place because of COVID, so all three players were fined and left out the following derby della Mole against Torino.
His contract in Turin expires in June 2025, but Juventus will find it difficult to sell him because any sale below €50m would mean a capital loss for the Bianconeri.
The Serie A giants will soon sit down with the player’s new agent Arthur to discuss his future at the club.
No offense, but can you journalists stop with the whole “Artur costed 70m”? Juventus only gave Pjanic plus 10m. The 72m of Artur and the 62m of Pjanic were just virtual prices to make it seem like the teams sold a player for a lot of money and made good profit and balanced their books.
You mean its just false accounting that currently being investigated by the officials?
for attending a private party at Weston McKennie’s house and Paulo Dybala.
Captain Allegri is correct, lay the law, what the heck is this with this lot, you play in a team rich in history of grand players, heck they even had Lippi as a coach who won the WC. Pls lay the law and ban the fast foods and all this sauce on pizzas mallarki
I am with Allegri 1000% (that is one thousand percent!)
To think Allegri actually wanted Pjanic back. Sums up his prehistoric coaching philosophy. I feel for Arthur. He is doing everything Allegri demands when on the field. He hangs on to the ball too long, passes back, passes safe and never drives forward. These are all things Allegri likes. I don’t get it lol.
€76m. LOL. He is worth about 20-30 million, and that is on a GOOD day!
Luckily Juve did not pay that much. They gave Pjanic (too old) plus 10 million. Pjanic is well past his best. but the way Arthur plays I still think Juve probably paid too much
@Blue:
All accounting is based on “perceived” value and “estimated” costs.
Like Kane’s or Sterling’s values being estimated to be €100m or more, even if their performances are not even worth €50m.
And, if you want to go with that rhetoric, then tell me which other clubs are being investigated? Let’s see, almost half of Italian clubs?
Go back to your FIFA/FM, no one takes witchhunts seriously except for cherry-picking idiots like you.
@kevin everyone can value some players whatever they like, whether other clubs have the same view, thats the issue. Sterling and Kane never move for 100 million so it is not relevant here.
What is relevant is there are only 2 possibilities for what Juve did. Its either (1) they paid 76 million for Arthur which made them very dumb; or (2) they cooked the accounting book which was why the reason pjanic was valued 66 million.
What do you think?