{"id":23653,"date":"2022-07-15T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/15\/all-the-details-as-raphinhas-barcelona-switch-finally-confirmed\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T12:00:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:00:37","slug":"all-the-details-as-raphinhas-barcelona-switch-finally-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/15\/all-the-details-as-raphinhas-barcelona-switch-finally-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"All the details as Raphinha\u2019s Barcelona switch finally confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<hr>\n<p>The long-standing saga linking Leeds United star Raphinha with a move to Spanish giants Barcelona has, on Friday, finally reached a conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The name of wide-man Raphinha has, of course, taken its place front and centre in the football headlines for several weeks now.<\/p>\n<p>This comes with the Brazilian international having attracted the interest of not only the heavyweights of the Premier League, but European football as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>All of Arsenal, Chelsea and the aforementioned Barca made clear their intent to add Raphinha to their ranks ahead of the 2022\/23 campaign, giving rise to quite the transfer saga.<\/p>\n<p>It was the latter, though, who in truth boasted the advantage throughout, owing to the will of the player himself to take his talents to the Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p>And now, as alluded to above, such efforts on the part of Raphinha and the Blaugrana alike have borne fruit.<\/p>\n<p>After the explosive attacker was spotted in Catalunya earlier this week, he has today been officially unveiled as the latest addition to the head-turning frontline overseen by Xavi Hernandez in Barcelona:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DONE DEAL \u270d\ufe0f\u2705<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoanLaportaFCB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoanLaportaFCB<\/a> ?Raphinha <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rq0nYs80KD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Rq0nYs80KD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/1547927430999879680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Leeds, meanwhile, have too announced the departure of their star man, taking to the club\u2019s official website and social media platforms to confirm:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Leeds United can confirm Raphinha has today completed a transfer to FC Barcelona for an undisclosed fee.\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Leeds United can confirm Raphinha has today completed a transfer to FC Barcelona for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leeds United (@LUFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LUFC\/status\/1547930258376048640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Though no fee has been announced on the part of either club, it is understood that the deal has set Barcelona back a sum in the region of \u20ac58 million fixed, with the potential to rise to \u20ac68 million when add-ons are taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>Raphinha, for his part, has put pen to paper on a contract through 2027, featuring a release clause set at a whopping \u20ac1 billion.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/barcelona-take-major-step-forward-for-robert-lewandowski\/\">Barcelona take major step forward for Robert Lewandowski<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/barcelona-agree-less-than-80m-euro-deal-for-manchester-citys-bernardo-silva\/\">Barcelona agree \u2018less than 80m euro\u2019 deal for Manchester City\u2019s Bernardo Silva<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-standing saga linking Leeds United star Raphinha with a move to Spanish giants Barcelona has, on Friday, finally reached a conclusion. The name of wide-man Raphinha has, of course, taken its place front and centre in the football headlines for several weeks now. This comes with the Brazilian international having attracted the interest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-23653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}