Raphinha

Only paper talk and scousers dreaming, pity their european exploits in Europe will be on a thursday next year.
He'll stay.

Cant imagine e woud go to liverpool, if he does go it will be for champions league football.

Man City, Madrid or maybe Barcelona are te teams we have to worry about losing him to

Sort of player who needs to be playing

Not sure he would get a start at Liverpool. Salah/Mane are surely too good to leave out despite in some aspect indifferent seasons and Jota has been class

Going nowhere

Gonna be adored in front of us for a few years at least

Signings we can and will make will just improve us again

He’s gonna get some reception when we get to watch him properly

i think he'll sign an extension.don't see him going anywhere in the near future.

Seems to have fitted in well at the club, despite language issues. Costa obviously speaks Portuguese and I think there is a lot of similarities between Spanish and Portuguese so Poveda, Pablo, Rodrigo, Llorente and possibly Bamford and Alioski should be able to communicate with him.
What puzzles me about Raphinha is two things, why so many clubs, fans favourite at Rennes yet they sold him at a loss, doesn't seem to stay anywhere for very long. Wonder whether there are issues.
Secondly why has he never been called up to play or Brazil at any level full squad, U23, U21 or Olympic. This is despite him breaking through at Vitória Guimarães when he was just 19. Flair player, typical Brazilian, Yet no international recognition. Has he come on under Bielsa or just been overlooked?

He’s head and shoulders your best player from what I’ve seen. Think he’s a top level/potential top level player so can see big clubs being interested however with the impact covid has had on spending across the league then could be good news.

I dont think he will do well at other clubs. He needs a Bielsa type of manager to do well. Bielsa plays him in a system which suits him. You can see Bielsa has improved him with taking good position, his off the ball movement and runs behind the opposition defence.

comment by The Mane Man (U19731)
posted 1 hour, 34 minutes ago
I dont think he will do well at other clubs. He needs a Bielsa type of manager to do well. Bielsa plays him in a system which suits him. You can see Bielsa has improved him with taking good position, his off the ball movement and runs behind the opposition defence.
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Not sure how you can judge either way to be honest, played 28 games for Sporting scored 6, 28 for Rennes scored 6 played 25 for us scored 6.
Pretty consistent.
I have read that he was a fan's favourite at Rennes which would indicate that he had a least a few good games there.
Haven't watched many Rennes games that he played in so don't really know what influence Bielsa has had.

Think he stated a while back how much he's taken to the club and that he loves playing under MB, the tracking back helping out the defence and the high intensity of Bielsaball is the way he enjoys playing.
Hopefully this means he'll be in no hurry to move on.