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Robert Lewandowski of FC Barcelona celebrates scoring his group’s second objective with group mate Raphinha in the course of the Spanish Tremendous Cup Last in opposition to Actual Madrid. (Photograph by Yasser Bakhsh/Getty Photographs)
Barcelona’s properly documented monetary issues are exhibiting no indicators of easing, and the Catalans are bracing themselves for a €100m bid from Man Metropolis for Raphinha.
In accordance with TeamTalk, the reigning Premier League champions wish to do a deal for the Brazilian – who has 31 G/A this season (transfermarkt) – in the summertime.
Arsenal nonetheless covet the winger, nonetheless, TeamTalk additionally perceive that any supply from the Gunners can be a lot decrease than Metropolis’s, successfully ruling them out of the operating.
Raphinha may very well be Man Metropolis’s huge summer time signing
There’s even a suggestion that Chelsea need Raphinha, so it’s totally attainable {that a} bidding struggle might start as soon as the 2024/25 season is over.
Raphinha of FC Barcelona celebrates scoring his group’s fifth objective in the course of the Spanish Tremendous Cup Last in opposition to Actual Madrid. (Photograph by Yasser Bakhsh/Getty Photographs)
In fact, not one of the potential bids are making an allowance for whether or not the participant really needs to maneuver again to the Premier League or not.
He’s having an impressive season in La Liga, and the accountability of the captaincy within the absence of Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Ronald Araujo and Frenkie de Jong has been the making of him.
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There’s been no suggestion in any way that Raphinha needs to go away the Blaugranes, and theoretically the one approach that such a transfer is more likely to be on the playing cards is that if president, Joan Laporta, leans on the participant and his representatives as a result of the membership nonetheless want cash into membership coffers.
Arsenal and Chelsea additionally chasing Raphinha
With Laporta’s inventory seemingly at an all-time low with supporters, that’s a plan of action that he can be ill-advised to take, although in soccer you may by no means say by no means after all.
For now, the Brazilian can consider serving to his membership to a profitable finish to the season.
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Having already received the Spanish Tremendous Cup, Barca are within the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey and can nearly definitely qualify for the knockout rounds of the Champions League.
Although they’ve slipped behind Actual Madrid within the race for the Spanish top-flight title, they’re not out of the race there both.
