Barcelona consider 26-year-old Bayern, Newcastle target ‘untransferable’

Barcelona must generate at least €100 million in player sales by the end of the transfer window. The steep objective has the club offices in a mess as they continually try to ship out underperforming stars.

Ansu Fati, Franck Kessie and Ferran Torres are some of the players used as bargaining chips to bring in much-needed revenue. Yet, not one of the three players is making it an easy process for the Catalans.

The club, thus, find themselves in a nerve-wracking situation. As a last-ditch option, Barcelona understand that they could have to part with a star player and make one big departure to fit the bill, and Raphinha was suggested to be that player earlier today.

According to reports from SPORT, however, the Brazilian is no longer on the departure list. Barcelona consider him untransferable and will not part ways with him this summer, especially given his strong run of performances in 2022/23.

The 26-year-old made 36 La Liga appearances for Barcelona last season, finding the back of the net seven times and providing as many assists. He created a whopping 17 big chances across the season and averaged 1.6 key passes per game.

Of the numerous clubs closely following his situation at the Blaugrana institution, Newcastle United were said to be leading the race to sign Raphinha this summer. With Bayern Munich in the race, however, it was never going to be a straightforward race.

Heading into the 2023-24 campaign, Xavi Hernandez will thus have both his star wingers, Raphinha and Ousmane Dembele, at his disposal.

The big question, however, will be the distribution of workload between the duo and whether the manager fancies deploying both wingers together. After all, both players have proven to be worthy of starting roles through merit.