03/23/2024 Act. at 19:50 CET
Raphinha is on his way to becoming one of the levers that Barcelona will activate next summer. The Saudi Professional League, which has been trying to catch the Brazilian winger for a year, is back at it. And now he does it with an offer that, economically, is irrefutable.
In recent weeks, the movements around the gaucho winger have intensified. Several intermediaries of different nationalities, all of them with good traffic in the Saudi market, have knocked on the door of John Laporta and of Deco transferring to them the interest of the four big Saudi clubs, controlled by a public fund, in hiring Raphinha. Barça knows that Raphinha has a market in Arabia and that his sale is absolutely feasible.
SPORT.es reported last Saturday that a firm offer from Arabia had arrived at the club’s offices.for a transfer value that exceeded 80 million euros, with which Barça had valued its player this season.
Well, we can report that The club interested in Raphinha is none other than Al-Hilalwhich has Neymar Jr. (still recovering from his cruciate injury) as his banner, led by the charismatic Portuguese coach, Jorge Jesusy which has just broken a world record of being the professional team with the most consecutive victories.
The club based in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, is going all out. is willing to achieve the 100 million euros, between fixed and variables, as a transfer. It is a financial injection, which Barça cannot ignore.
Raphinha arrived at Barcelona in the summer of 2022. The Blaugranas paid 57 million euros, equaling the agreement that Leeds United had reached with Chelsea. The Brazilian signed for five years, so on July 1, when the market opens, he will have already repaid 22.8 million.
His sale would entail huge accounting profits that would be impossible to give up in a Barça that is rebuilding on all fronts.which has to tighten its belt until it achieves the income that the launch of the new Spotify Camp Nou will bring.
In this course, ‘Rapha’ has emoluments that reach 5.5 million net tokens. Al-Hilal is willing to triple this figure. From a financial point of view, all parties involved benefit greatly.
More of a great sale
Barça will have to release ballast when the curtain comes down on this campaignregardless of what the final sporting outcome achieved by the team will be. Xavi Hernandez. The economy rules and there will be several big sales. Internally, the decision has already been made.
On a theoretical level, the players that the club would like to transfer for strictly financial reasons are ‘clean sales’ of those players that should not be amortized, because they joined as free agents (in this group, they are Andreas Christensen o Inigo Martinez) which comes from the base categories (such as Ronald Araujo signed at the time from the Uruguayan Boston River and who arouses the interest of Bayern Munich). A separate case is Frenkie de Jong.
The figures that Raphinha’s departure for Arabia would entail open a new scenario. It is an operation that the club will study in isolation due to its impact, because it would help, a lot, to clean up the income statement.
Convince Raphinha
Raphinha does not want to leave Barça y Deco, who was his agent throughout his career, knows the position of his former pupil, whom he now commands as sports director.
Barcelona has rejected the offers that have come to it so far for the gaucho winger, based on sporting reasons, and having the knowledge that The Canarinho international would not give in.
Deco continues to defend that Lamine Yamal needs direct competition to continue growing and reach the star status that the entire football world already assumes of him. And ‘Rapha’ agrees to play this role and fight for ownership.
Now, what Barça considering the departure of the Brazilian is not for sporting reasons, but for financial and economic reasons. And, here, the scenario changes radically in relation to the position that the club held in the last two market windows.
If Barça activates the ‘Raphinha lever’, the interested party must be convinced that the best thing for everyone would be a change of scenery. It will not be easy. And the club is fully aware of this.
The fact that the superagents who operate in the international market have approached Raphinha in recent weeks can help Barça sweeten the until now non-negotiable position of the gaucho winger.
2024-03-23 18:25:15
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