Rafinha Alcántara, celebrating a goal with the FC Barcelona

RAFINHA IS STILL IN THE FC BARCELONA

All the truth on the signing truncated of Rafinha by the Betis

Published:4/09/2018 - 10:33h

Updated:4/09/2018 - 11:03h

The Hispanic midfield player-Brazilian of the FC Barcelona, Rafinha Alcántara, was very near to leave to the Real Betis in the last days of the market of signings. Finally, there was not agreement and the group verdiblanco bet by Celso

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There were 48 hours, the last of the market of signings, in which the future of Rafinha Alcántara was more in the air that never. The Hispanic-Brazilian did not go in in the announcement against the Real Valladolid, since the FC Barcelona was negotiating with the Real Betis a possible course of the footballer so that it had of minutes in the group verdiblanco.

The president of the Real Betis, Ángel Haro, has explained some details on the negotiation, that saw truncated finally because Rafinha, when seeming, did not want to engage on a long-term basis with the Real Betis. "Ours first option was Celso", explains Gonzalo Haro.

"A player to complement the centre of the field. But the PSG wanted an obligation of purchase to important prices. Then we go in in the option of Rafinha, that liked. We convinced to the Barcelona, the player presionó. What occurs is that the footballer did not want to engage on a long-term basis. Have closed an option of purchase with the Barcelona and not having a future agreement of the player is practically not having at all".

"And this happened 48 hours before the closing of the market. We went back to insist in Gio, tighten and accelerate the operation. The day 31 was a bit hard, because apart from closing this signing it was necessary to give gone out several footballers and received a proposal by Boudebouz that analysed but did not accept , as it was an imprudencia leave to the team with a player less to three hours of the closing of the market", relates Haro.

In this sense, at the end Rafinha Alcántara did not finish leaving to the Real Betis, and the one who himself landed in the group bético was Giovani Celso, in quality of yielded by Paris Saint-Germain, although with the forcing of purchase by value of 25 million euros, if the Real Betis classifies again for European competition this campaign, was Europe League or Champions League.

Valverde Has Rafinha in the Barça

After the key hours for the future of Rafinha, and after it have remained in the FC Barcelona, surprises that it have not gone in in the announcement of the FC Barcelona against the Huesca in the past day of League Santander 2018-19. Ernesto Valverde, in any case, account fully with his services of face to the present course, when having seen his potential along the pre-season.

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