Imagine, for a moment, that everything turns out perfectly from FC Barcelona's point of view. Imagine that in a year's time, the agreement to sell Arthur Melo to Juventus for €72m (with a further €10m in potential add-ons) and sign Miralem Pjanic from Juventus for €60m (plus €5m in possible add-ons) works out so well that those fees, or better still one of them, no longer look quite so inflated. Hell, imagine it becoming a bit of a bargain. Yes, even when the increased wage bill is taken into account. Imagine the whole thing starting to look like a stroke of genius.
Barcelona swapping Arthur for Pjanic was a business move but for all the wrong reasons
