Joan Laporta 'promises' Raphinha that Barça will sign him

Although it has not concretised the sale of 49,9% of BLM or 25% of the television rights of the FC Barcelona, the rumours regarding signings for the season 2022-2023 have intensified substantially. From the club transmit that they will be in economic capacity to confront the window of transfer with solvencies and will be able to achieve to the players that Xavi Hernández has asked.

One of them is Raphinha, player of the Leeds United, Brazilian attacker that has agreement until the summer of 2023 and to the that in the Barça see like the spare of Ousmane Dembélé, whose future follows without being clear-cut. The English club would be had to go down to 50 million euros (cost 55M) the price of his star for faciltar his exit, but according to diverse informations the Barça still considers it like a mount high (considering that Lewandowski will cost this, or less) and trust that the price will go reducing with the happen of the weeks in front of the pressures of the footballer.

The stage continues being complicated, but according to a recent information of the newspaper 'SPORT', the Barcelona president Joan Laporta has communicated directly with Raphinha to transmit him that "his contracting goes to be able to be viable from the economic point of view and of 'Fair Play' financial". The maximum Barcelona mandator would have expressed, besides, that his signing is strategic for dinamizar the forward beside Robert Lewandowski.

The Barça, always according to the before quoted source, believes to see the light at the end of the tunnel and are convinced that they will be able to configure a highly competitive staff to litigate by the titles in the season that comes and 'return' the prestige to a club that carries several years sumido in a historical and unprecedented crisis. For this, in addition to activating the sale of the active (BLM and television rights), the Barcelona will intensify his efforts for a 'operation gone out' that allow to free space in the changing room and reduce the mass salarial.

Laporta Asks confidence

The president blaugrana, after explaining the leaf of route of the Barça to the Brazilian footballer, has asked him that "it keep his confidence as it has done it up to now", as they explain in 'SPORT', put his signing will go in in his final phase in the weeks to come. The optimism would be absolute from the offices of the Camp Nou, conscious that so much Raphinha like his agent, Deco, have been the first in presionar so that the Leeds 'yield' in his requirements.

And it is that the Barça continues being the first option for the international with Brazil, although teams like the Liverpool and Arsenal have showed interested in doing with his services this summer, although they have not intensified his contacts with the Leeds or the representative of the footballer knowingly that only it thinks in the picture of the City Condal of face to the next season.

Now the important work will have it Mateu Alemany, the one who will have to intensify the contacts with the leaders of the Leeds United so that the available price descend more. The Barça would be had to pay only 40 million euros, ten less than which are asking right now.