Raphinha celebrates with his Barcelona teammates (Photo by Octavio Passos/Getty Images)
Barcelona winger Raphinha will be looking to build up a remarkable record in the Champions League this season as he prepares to face Brest in tonight’s game.
The Brazil international has five goals and two assists in four Champions League appearances so far this season, and overall he’s certainly up there with the most improved players in Europe after the huge improvement we’ve seen since that Hansi Flick became Barcelona’s coach.
Arsenal are ready to offer £50m for the Spanish superstar!
Raphinha was once a star player for Leeds United as his dazzling displays lit up the Premier League, leading Arsenal to show interest in him (according to telegraph) before finally moving to Camp Nou.
The Gunners are being linked with Raphinha again now as a recent report from files claimed the north London giants could try to offer up to €90m in a bid to bring him back to England.
Arsenal would clearly be fine if they could land the 27-year-old, who is now surely too important for Barca to consider letting him go.
Still, with AFC without alternatives to Bukayo Saka, while the form of the likes of Gabriel Jesus, Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard has dipped, these new links make sense.
Could Raphinha help bring Champions League glory back to Barcelona?
It has been a relatively poor spell for Barcelona in Europe’s top club competition, and they will be desperate to return to his best level in this tournament under Flick, who recently won with Bayern Munich to his name.
The German tactician guided Bayern to the treble in 2019/20, and has now made a very promising start at Barcelona, with his ability to get the best out of Raphinha looking key.
Could the Brazilian winger now star for the Catalan giants as they seek to win this trophy for the first time since 2014/15? With the kind of stats he’s produced so far, it looks like he really is the standout player on this team.
according to who scoredRaphinha has been statistically the second best player in the Champions League this season, behind only Borussia Dortmund’s Karim Adeyemi, who has played fewer games.
It’s still early days in this new edition of the tournament, but there have been promising signs for Barcelona so far, and Raphinha will be looking to further establish himself as their MVP with another scintillating display tonight.
