Offer from Liverpool in – Reds need to hurry as transfer race heats up, battle has begun

For the past few days, Raphinha’s future has been a topic of discussion in the Spanish and Brazilian media.

On March 23rd, we covered claims made by Sport that the star’s agent is handling an offer from Liverpool. It was also stated the winger has emerged as a transfer ‘objective’ for Barcelona

Today’s edition of the same newspaper explains the La Liga side have submitted their first offer to sign the 25-year-old in the summer.

Apart from the Blaugrana and the Merseyside club, Bayern Munich are also in the picture to take the Brazil international. According to the newspaper, Jürgen Klopp’s side and the Bavarian club are Barca’s ‘main competitors’ in the race for the Whites attacker.

Faced with competition and taking their own financial situation into account, the Spanish giants have ‘decided to play their cards to try to close the operation’, before Liverpool and the Bundesliga winners ‘enter with everything’. 

Sport states the player has ‘already seen the project that Xavi is building, as more attractive than the one that Liverpool or Bayern can offer him’.

Deco, the agent involved, has close ties with the Blaugrana and their president, Joan Laporta. Sport say this is another factor that will benefit Xavi Hernández’s side in the chase.

The report suggests these factors, plus their offer, means Barcelona are ‘ahead of Liverpool and Bayern’ to sign the South American in the next window.