Barcelona have reached an agreement with Brazilian club Gremio on the possibility of buying midfielder Arthur, the club announced on Sunday.
Plaugrana can activate this option in July 2018. If the club does so, the transfer will amount to € 30 million and another $ 9 million.
The 21-year-old Brazilian won the Copa Libertadores with Gremio and the Sampa Under-17s, less than 20 years old, and was called up to the first team.
Arthur is best known for his ability to create and lead play, keep the ball and its subtle passions, and its evils that pose a real danger to adversaries. Arthur began his career in 2008, in the lower age group of Goias, before signing for Gremio in 2010, and over time he became a fixture for the first team and was selected as the best player in the final leg of the Copa Libertadores.
Arthur joins Brazilian players in the Catalan team, Paulinho and Philippe Coutinho, who arrived at Camp Nou in a record deal that exceeded 140 million euros.
URGENT Two-year-old Real Madrid will have a second-leg title at home to fourth-placed Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday as Liverpool return to the playoffs against Porto.
The first continental competition is a major goal in Real and Saint-Germain this season. On the one hand, Real, especially his French coach Zinedine Zidane, wants to compensate for his loss of logical hope of chasing Barcelona in the league and his humiliating exit from the Cup competition.
The German side, despite their clear dominance in the French league, has yet to be relegated to a first European title, boosted by Brazilian striker Neymar from Barcelona last summer for 222 million euros.
No one in the Santiago Bernabeu stadium wanted to face a high-caliber opponent in this early round of a 12-page "royal" tournament, but the draw was a two-way encounter.
No team has won the continental title three times in a row since the mid-1970s when Bayern Munich made it possible to win again for Real if they manage to move past St Germain and continue their march towards the May 26 final in Kiev.
Real Madrid, who have reached the semi-final in the last seven years, has what it takes to add the third title in a row to the 2017 when they beat Juventus 4-1 in the final and became the first team to retain the title in its new version, the first ever In the new and previous versions (the European Cup of Champions) since the achievement of Milan in 1990.
The exit from the final of the final is still stuck in the minds of their fans when they beat Barcelona 4-0 on their way to the quarter-finals, before a terrible drop off the home 1-6, Neymar scored two goals.
St Germain scored their best in the Champions League before the semi-finals in 1995 and came out against AC Milan.
"This confrontation between Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain can be a whole season," said Cristiano Ronaldo, the world's best player and five-time world champion.
- "Concern" in Paris -
The two-month-old has attracted the attention of the European footballers because of their negative impact on the loser, especially Zidane, who is under heavy criticism despite bringing eight titles from 11 possible in just two seasons, and Spaniard Onai Emery demanding compensation for the fall of last season.
"There is no fear in football, especially with Real Madrid," said Croatia midfielder Luka Modric, a Real Madrid player.
Given the level of the two teams, there is a slight preference for St Germain, who lead the league and compete against the rest of the domestic cups, but lacks decisive in the major confrontations such as last season's Barcelona or Bayern Munich (1-3) in December.
Udinese captain Edenson Cavani scored the first goal in the Champions League, creating a "worry" in Paris, although teammate Adrian Rabio said the team in the capital had made progress. "We have to have a solid mindset. You have to be psychologically ready. "
To put pressure on the visiting team, the heart of the Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos called on the Meringhi fans to come early to receive a hot bus for the SG on arrival.
The match between Ronaldo, 33, and Neymar, 26, who celebrated their birthday in a day,
It is true that Ronaldo has a regular season compared to his previous scoring goals, but he leads the league's top scorer 9 with three goals from Neymar. Ronaldo has been top scorer with 114 goals, including 19 in the last 11 games, a record in all matches this season.
There have been many recent reports of Neymar's move to Real, to be Ronaldo's successor and leader of the club's renewal campaign, but Saint-Germain and Qatari President Nasser al-Khulaifi have repeatedly denied this possibility.
- A defensive battle? -
But who will win? Experience or ambition? History or rocket boarding?
"We are going to face a great team with great players who we respect a lot, but we have proved the strength of our squad, its unity and its experience in this competition," Ronaldo warned.
There will also be a confrontation between the trio of the BBC's Ronaldo, Welsh Gareth Pyle and Frenchman Karim Benzema, while the trio of St Germain (MCN), composed of Neymar, Cavani and Juventus Kilian Mbabi, also coming last summer from Monaco.
Zidane, who received 13 goals in 10 matches in 2018, said: "Because we are playing on our soil, we must pay attention to our goals."
And miss Real right back Danny Karabakhl suspended, to begin to wake up Nacho match and bear the burden of Neymar control.
In Paris, Italian midfielder Tiago Motta will miss his injury and Limere will have several options in the midfield defense between former Real Madrid player Lassana Diarra, Argentine Giovanni Lucello and Marco Verati.
The two teams met only once in the Champions League. Real Madrid won 1-0 at home to Nacho in the group stage in 2015 after a draw in Paris. Real are also the most extreme opponents of the UEFA Cup quarter-finals of 1993 and the 1994 European Cup. - The red in the exclusion -
In the second game, Liverpool face the English champions five times with a two-time win over Portuguese Porto.
The English team has the advantage of winning two matches in the UEFA Cup quarter-finals of 2001 and the group stage of the Champions League in 2007, and tied in the other two.
German coach Juergen Klub and Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah have been in the playoffs for the first time since 2009. Salah has been in excellent form since moving from Rome to second place in the English Premier League with 22 points behind Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Caen.
"To be frank, I have not decided yet, but now it is different," he said, referring to the payment of Karyos, who played all but one of the 2018 Reds.
Porto have not been in the quarter-finals since their 2004 start at Monaco's expense.
Chilean Alexes Sanchez recovered some of his memories when he was a Barcelona player in an interview with former French star Terry Henry on SkySpot after revealing a sad attitude from his former teammate Lionel Messi. The Manchester United player spoke of the sacrifices made by football players to reach the highest level, and in order to prove those sacrifices, Sanchez said that on one occasion saw Messi crying in the dressing room after losing a penalty to Barcelona. Messi missed a penalty that caused the Catalan team to exit the semi-finals of the 2012 Champions League, by the Chelsea team English, and confirmed his former colleague that he cried bitterly to lose that kick, to leave Albersa championship after the draw 2-2 and the back of the confrontations back and forth 3.2. In the dressing room with Barcelona, after the match against Chelsea, I saw Leo (Messi) cry, because the players are asking a lot of themselves, "Sanchez said in an interview with Henry on the British television network:" You will cry if you lose a final match, But people do not see this. " "As a child, my dream was to become a football player and play for the best clubs. I think football saved a lot of people, because it can give you life and well-being, but people do not see all that effort being made in the backstage.
See your family, or absent from your mother's birthday or even attend your children's birth. " "I left Arsenal and I came to Manchester United to develop as a player and gain new experience in a new club, Manchester United is a big club, I came here to win everything," Sanchez said of his departure from Manchester United.
The Moroccan national team won the fifth edition of the African Cup for local players in Morocco after defeating Nigeria's Eagles 4-0 in the final match at the Mohamed V stadium in Casablanca.
The match began with the pressure of the Moroccan team to the net of the Nigerian team, lost Walid Karti, the first opportunity to score in the third minute after a pass from the wing Zakaria Hadraaf, after which the assistant referee rejected the second goal in the seventh minute goal from the top scorer Ayoub al-Kaabi, The 15th minute threatened the Nigerians with an excellent tackle that hit the crossbar to keep them from reaching their ninth goal of the tournament.
Gamal Al Salami's pressure on goalkeeper Ajiboye continued in search of the goal of progress, and Ismail Al Haddad's team continued to try, while the Nigerian players were able to fortify the back line and abort the "Atlas Lions" movements while relying on the attackers.
Morocco's right-winger Mohamed Al-Nuhairi lost another shot in the 35th minute, while the Nigerian team threatened the goal of Moroccan goalkeeper Zineti more than once, before Zakaria Hadraaf succeeded in scoring A coordinated attack in the last minute of the first half.
With the start of the second half of the standoff, Nigeria's left defender Moises fell into the net after being blocked by defender Mohamed Nuhiri and his second warning and thus the dismissal in the 48th minute, completing the remaining minutes with a numerical deficit that enabled Moroccan players to extend their control of the second round .
Walid Al-Karti boosted the score for the Moroccan team by scoring the second goal in the 61st minute after Al-Qaim blocked a great goal from Ayoub Al-Kaabi before Zakaria Hadraf returned three minutes later to score the third goal. Result of confrontation.
The Moroccan players then lost many chances to the Nigerian goal, while the Eagles could not reach goalkeeper Anas Zeniti, who remained in the rest of the minutes of the second half, while scoring goals Ayoub Al Kaabi, the fourth goal in the 73rd minute after the blocker On two occasions, to achieve his ninth goal in the competition.
The last minutes of the game did not come to any new, as the friends of the leader Badr Bannon mastered the passing of the ball with the total retreat of the Nigerian team, which continued the game with broken morale, before the Gambian referee Bakari Gassama declared the match with a landslide victory for the Moroccan team, Africa for local players, as the third Arab team crowned the title after Tunisia and Libya.
