PSG began the purification of its squad and directed the departure of an experienced midfielder

Rafinha is the first to leave PSG (Photo: Reuters)

The campus of Paris Saint Germain It is overcrowded with stars. First-rate footballers who in any other club would have guaranteed ownership but who in the French team can barely add minutes. Faced with this context of complexity to provide space, the board made the decision to refine part of the list of professionals and there is already a name that has everything arranged to leave: Rafinha.

The 28-year-old midfielder had an interesting portion of participation during the 2020/21 season, the first in Paris. But this second part of the adventure is not being as expected and everything is on track to be assigned to the Royal Society of Spain.

Emerged from Barcelona, but with steps by Inter of Italy Y Celta Vigo, Rafinha arrived at PSG in October 2020 in exchange for some 3 million variables that Barcelona had to accept because the footballer was about to go free a few months later. In addition, the entity culé held 35% of a future sale.

In the first part of his stay in France he achieved accumulate 23 presentations by Ligue 1 and another 8 in the Champions League. But Mauricio Pochettino no longer takes it into account given the large number of variants for the midfield: he barely used it so far in 5 matches of the French tournament (3 times he started) and was not part of the squad in the Champions League.

Real societyCurrently, he is in sixth place in the Spanish League, which today would allow him to play the Europa Conference League. As indicated by the French media RMC Sport, The loan until the end of the season is agreed to be completed from January 1, but one detail remains: if you will have a purchase option or not and the amount of the clause if you decide to include it.

It should be noted that the Brazilian player was in a list of possible outputs that the newspaper The team released weeks ago and that also included Mauro Icardi, Layvin Kurzawa, Sergio Rico, Abdou Diallo, Colin Dagba and ricric Junior Dina Ebimbe.

At that time, the newspaper reported that the player who has contract valid until 2023 accumulated more than two months without action and that made it clear that the Argentine coach “Not convinced” with its performance. “He knows they don’t have him in Paris”, they clarified. Against this background, his departure to Spanish football seems simple.

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