There is an argument that Raphinha has been the most effective player of Barcelona this season and recently exceeds the threshold of 50 target contributions. Despite his form, the transfer interviews around the 27-year-old, however, continues.
Raphinha admitted that he ended up to a departure last summer, but that manager Hansi Flick had been crucial to change ideas to stay in the club. Since then he has taken a leading role for the Blaugrana and after two middle seasons he has become one of their best and most consistent artists.
Now Barcelona is trying to bind him to a new deal. With two years left on his contract, the Blaugrana opened conversations with Raphinha, who apparently wants to stay in the club. That is at first glance what Barcelona wants, but they have set a price tag of € 80-90 million for him, and recently it was leaked that he is not happy with their new contract offer.
It should be noted that Raphinha has not appointed a new agent since Deco has left him to become the football director of Barcelona, ​​but according to the outside of the Premier League monitoring his situation closely. They note that Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea, who are all on the market for a broad attacker this summer, are all interested in what could happen to the Brazilian superstar.
They join a queue that already includes Saudi-Arab giants al-Hilal, who would like to replace Neymar Junior with a tent signing, and have already intiminated that they would be willing to give up € 300 million to make the deal happen. So far, Barcelona has rejected that approach.
It would be a big surprise if Barcelona said goodbye to Raphinha this summer, after he was so close to the departure last year and justified his signing this season. However, there is also a stream of thought that this could be the peak for Raphinha, and it would be the right time to sell it. Yet it seems like a complicated task with doubts about Barcelona's salary limit, replacing him.