The Arthur/Pjanic swop deal from summer 2020.

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Who got the better deal then one year on.

Pjanic started two games for Barcelona since early Feb

Arthur started the cup final but again about two Serie A starts in last three months of the seaosn.

Sid Lowe basically summed it up pretty nicely with this June 2020 article:

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/spa...a-business-move-but-for-all-the-wrong-reasons

Wasn't there more to this anyway, basically the Pjanic fee got inflated to help Barcelona get out of FFP issues last summer? So two of the Super league rabble helping each other out.
 

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Their balance sheets won. That is what the deal was about so i‘d call it a success.
 

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That Arthur was supposed to be amazing but the biggest highlight of his career I can remember is when he [allegedly] contracted gonorrhoea before a Clasico