Barcelona used to be the ideal destination for Brazilians. From Romario, through Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Neymar… All those aces played the best football in their careers in the Blaugrana jersey. In addition to them, Giovanni, Sonny Anderson, Edmilson, Belletti, Dani Alves, Adriano also had successful episodes. But somewhere since Neymar’s departure, it seems that a curse has been cast on the Brazilians in Barcelona. Miss after miss, after miss! Philippe Coutinho, Paulinho, Malcolm and Arthur were brought in as capital, together they were paid over 250,000,000 euros and they have shown nothing, apart from Paulinho, who still didn’t show enough. Not to mention flops like like Douglas, Nate, Marlon, Matheus Fernandes.🚨🚨💣| FC Barcelona could SELL Raphinha next summer. His situation will be analysed at the end of this season. @sport pic.twitter.com/T7D3quLW4K— Managing Barça (@ManagingBarca) December 11, 2023 And the last big Brazilian reinforcement is following in their footsteps. A year and a half ago, Raphinha came from Leeds for 58,000,000 euros as the most expensive reinforcement of the Catalans that summer, and they are already thinking about his sale. In his debut season, he performed solidly but below what was expected for the money. Seven goals and an assist each in the campaign for the Primera title and a far weaker performance in Europe. Xavi protected him, trusted him, stood by him, and gave him a lot of playing time, but since the beginning of this season, Raphinha just disappeared. He played another weak match at Mestalla last weekend. This is the tenth consecutive in which he did not score a goal. His playing time has halved compared to last season, and he comes off the bench more than he starts. It seems that young Yamal will completely push him out of the team by the end of the season. It also seems that Xavi gave up on him… Raphinha scored only two goals in 16 matches, and his shooting performance is desperate – only 6.9 per cent.##NAJAVA_MECA_7744751##And news came from Catalonia that the club is willing to negotiate a sale already this winter in order to extract at least a larger part of the invested money. However, there are not many interested parties. One is Manchester United, which offers a trade for Jadon Sancho, which Barca is not very interested. The second option is more interesting for Barca. Several agents are trying to arrange Raphinha’s transfer to Saudi Arabia. All of them would do well there financially, but the player believes that he still has something to show in European football and that it is early for the Middle East.Day of the Draws: heat is on as we’re about to find out the UCL, UEL and ECL knockout skirmishesRaphinha’s manager was Deco, who recently became the club’s director and cannot officially represent the Brazilian, although it is clear that he has an influence on his opinion and plans. For Deco, a possible continuation of Raphinha’s bad would be terrible, as the price would go down, and he is now a director which already has big problems with financial restrictions. Barca lost huge money on the Brazilians in previous years and must not allow themselves a similar scenario now.
