Agent Federico Pastorello has revisited moving Arthur Melo on-loan from Juventus to Liverpool.

Arthur is on a season-long loan at Anfield, though his time on Merseyside has been plagued by injury.

Pastorello told TMW: "The operation in August was born from stubbornness in looking for something.

"Liverpool had previously given signs of technical appreciation, but they had no space. We always remained on the piece monitoring any injuries and performances from other players: at the same time, we kept in touch with the technical direction of Liverpool.

"Then we had some luck in the bad luck of others: in August Liverpool had to deal with several injuries and on August 28/29, while we were also dealing with other clubs because staying at Juventus was the least of the hypotheses, it happens that (Jordan) Henderson is hurt.

"At that point they called us, it was the penultimate day of the transfer market: Liverpool calls us saying that they want to close the operation and from there we get seriously to work. We left for Liverpool on the last market day for visits and signatures."