Newcastle interested in Arthur Melo

An replace has emerged on Newcastle United and their pursuit of a brand new midfielder in the summertime switch window… 

What’s the discuss?

According to TuttoJuve, the Magpies are one of many golf equipment eyeing up a possible swoop to signal Arthur Melo from Juventus. 

The report claims that the Toon and West Ham are each taken with a deal to signal the Brazil worldwide after Valencia confirmed that they don’t have the cash accessible to afford him.

It has been beforehand reported that he has a price ticket within the area of €40m (£34m), though it stays to be seen how a lot Newcastle are prepared to pay for him.

Jonjo Shelvey substitute

The membership could discover the dream substitute for his or her English metronome by snapping up a deal to signal Arthur within the coming weeks.

Shelvey has been dominated out for round 12 weeks with a hamstring damage and this has the potential to be a giant blow to the aspect within the first half of the marketing campaign. 

Within the Premier League final season, Allan Saint-Maximin was the one non-January signing with a better common SofaScore rating than the central midfielder. Together with the winter recruits, the ex-Liverpool man ranked fifth within the squad for scores out of all gamers with 10+ appearances.

His passing potential was key to that as he fulld 9.35 lengthy passes per 90 – putting him within the 90th percentile in Europe’s prime 5 leagues. He accomplished 80.2% of his passes in complete as he dictated play for Howe from the center of the park.

Arthur, in the meantime, fulld 11.05 lengthy passes per 90 for Juventus within the Serie A – putting him within the 97th percentile. He additionally had a cross completion success fee of 91.6% while additionally taking part in 7.39 passes into the ultimate third – putting him within the prime two p.c of gamers in his place – in comparison with Shelvey’s 4.31 per 90.

The 26-year-old’s potential in possession has earned him excessive reward previously, with former teammate Lionel Messi as soon as stating:

“Those that got here are excellent. Arthur, I didn’t know that a lot about however he appears much like Xavi. He’s very protected and reliable. He has the La Masia fashion. Enjoying brief passes, with out shedding the ball, and he grasped it shortly, the dynamic of the group.”

This implies that the Brazilian could be an improve on Shelvey due to his superior potential on the ball, with the midfielder proving in Italy that he’s extremely dependable on the ball while having the ability to progress it into harmful areas and unfold the play with longer passes.

Subsequently, he could be the dream substitute for the Englishman while he misses the following few months as a consequence of his hamstring damage.