Bomb! The Royal Society negotiates with Paris Saint Germain the loan of Rafinha Alcántara in the winter market that is about to open. The San Sebastian club once again surprises the entire football world with another top-level movement in the European market. He is a sought-after player, who has passed through some of the most relevant clubs on the continent, and who belongs to one of the most economically rich entities in Europe, PSG de Mbappé. The txuri-urdin interest is real, to the point that there are open conversations that are quite advanced, although at the moment the matter is not exactly close to being closed.
The Real Sociedad, whose president had not ruled out signings in the January market, is looking in the market for a player with whom to reinforce its core, due to the prolonged casualties that it has suffered in the first part of the season in that position. His intention is to hire a footballer who can act as an offensive midfielder. At first he had been offered the loan of Juan Mata, the Manchester United player who can play as a midfielder, but after evaluating him the club understood that it was not the player profile they were looking for. It is much more in line with what Roberto Olabe wants, and Imanol Alguacil would have asked, what Rafinha Alcántara can offer.
He is a player who is already on Real’s radar before, when he was loaned to Celta and when he left for Inter Milan. Then, their paths could not be found, but now it seems that it may be the definitive one, if there are no setbacks in the conversations between Real and PSG, according to sources consulted by Diario AS, which have confirmed the information advanced by journalist Fabrizzio Romano. “Real Sociedad is making progress in the negotiations to sign Rafinha from Paris Saint-Germain. It will be a 6-month loan contract, until June 2022. Ongoing negotiations to complete the agreement, there are still details to be resolved, but the club’s sources are confident, “he says on his social networks.
In the Royal Society they have confirmed that this operation is underway, and there is relative optimism that it may end up being carried out. Previous contacts with his father and representative, former soccer player Mazinho, would have helped advance the negotiation. Because Rafinha seems that he does not see with bad eyes to land at Real, where he would have the opportunities that he is not having at PSG, where this season he has only played five games. The Parisian club is also in favor of finding him a way out in January. Rafinha would arrive on loan until June 2022, the remainder of the season; But they do not rule out the San Sebastian club in negotiating his transfer to property next summer if the transfer goes well, because the Brazilian player ends his contract with PSG in 2023, so he would enter his last year of employment. Rafinha Alcántara, trained in the Barcelona quarry, has gone through Celta de Vigo, Inter Milan and PSG, who paid 3.5 million euros in 2020 for his signing to Barça. It would not be an excessively expensive operation for the Royal Treasury.
The Brazilian would arrive to play in the center of the field and is part of the prolonged absences due to injury or sanction of Merino, Silva, Illarramendi and Guridi in this first part of the season. In addition, it could cover the departure of De Silva, if finally the canary does not renew his contract that ends in 2022. It is a strategic operation that has been put within the reach of Real, which is once again shaking up the transfer market.