Miralem Pjanic itching to playing alongside Barcelona captain Lionel Messi, stating that “it will be nice to share a changing room with an alien”.
The Bosnian swapped Juventus for Camp Nou as part of a trade-off of sorts that saw Arthur Melo head in the other direction, with the swaps carried out – at least in part – in an effort to balance the respective books of each club.
It was a move that sparked the ire of Barcelona fans, with 30-year-old Pjanic effectively being traded off for a much younger Arthur, but Pjanic clearly cares little for the detractors as he prepares to line up next to “the greatest player of all time”.