Inter and city rivals Milan are to fight for the signature of Barcelona’s Rafinha according to a report from Corriere della Sera.
The overcrowding in the Barcelona midfield could see the Brazilian moved on whether that be on a temporary or permanent basis. Milan are long term admirers of the La Masia academy graduate while Inter are newly interested in him. Due to Financial Fair Play restrictions imposed on them, Inter would only be able to acquire the 24-year-old on loan.
Rafinha has not played this season whatsoever due to an injury he sustained back in May of last year. A loan move could present an opportunity to get back up to speed in a less crowded environment where pressure is unlikely to be as high as it is at the Nou Camp.
Since making his first team debut, Rafinha has went on to appear no less than 78 times for the Blaugrana. He has scored 11 goals and assisted eight and has also earned two caps for the Brazilian national team.
This player don’t play in the field for 8 month because injury… are we still inter? First chinese goverment than ffp third zhang don’t wanna spend… this is bulshit. I know this is january but at least we can get player like pastore he know how to play in serie A.
Just fine but not the one I’ve been waiting for. Come on, where’s the big names??
Useless move. Expect a news about him after we brought him to Meazza: “Rafinha is not ready to play due to fitness problem”.
Bring players who don’t need time to adapt to Italian football and don’t have fitness problem, means they are rotation/first team player in their current club.
there is even better brasilian player than this rafinha.
Carlos Henrique Kaiser, google him !!
He had played only one good season.
dear ran,
don’t get angry with me, I was only joking with this brasilian. he was a prankster, but ideal one for “wise” inter transfer politics, perhaps he was an inspiration for gabi ?
he would be ideal man for our giant ausilio ;-))) !
here is about that prankster, source wikipedia :
Carlos Henrique Raposo (born 2 April 1963), commonly known as Carlos Kaiser, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a striker better known as being a “farce footballer”.[1] He was selected to play with many teams in his decade-long career, but never actually played a regulation game and hid his limited ability with phony injuries, frequent team changes and other ruses.
He later returned to Brazil and started a career as a farce footballer since he “wanted to be a footballer, but did not want to play football”, becoming friends of many footballers such as Carlos Alberto Torres, Ricardo Rocha and Renato Gaúcho so that he would have a big network to be recommended whenever he needed to transfer to a new club. With a physical shape similar to professional footballers, but lacking skills, his fraud consisted of signing a short contract and stating that he was lacking match fitness so that he would spend the first weeks only with physical training where he could shine. When he had to train with other players, he would feign a hamstring injury; the technology at the time made it difficult to detect the fraud. He had a dentist who claimed he had focal infection whenever any club wanted to go further. By following these steps, he managed to stay a few months at the various clubs just training and without ever being exposed as a fraud.[1]
Another part of the farce was to befriend journalists so that they would write fake news about him. In one newspaper article, it was reported that he had such a great time at Puebla that he was even invited to become a Mexican citizen to play for the national team.[1] He also used toy mobile phones, unpopular and expensive at the time, to create fake conversations in foreign languages or reject non-existent transfer offers to create an image of himself as a valuable player.[3]
i did’n mate, i just did’n like the fact him been linking to inters move. there are many good players that wasted in barcelona but not this player inter is need to.
btw…i never heard fraud story like this especially in football. maybe its possible in the past but for modern football i hope its not exist. especially if it hit our lovely club, such a pathetic story but kind a funny little bit.
hahaha, he is very funny guy, google him a bit, perhaps and on youtube… incredible LOL ! btw. I absolutely agree with you about rafinha.
hahaha this guy was really exist, i’ve just google it. and he even have no single match registered hhaha. but he should be proud for the long career and the nickname “kaiser” he got due to resemblance with frans beckenbauer hahaha.
the best EVER !! ahahahah,
branca, moratti, ausilo you don’t know what you missed !! LOL
Alas, I thought we get Hazard on loan (kind of similiar face from the photos :lol)
cou is in barca,
rakitić is surplus,
juve wants him ! ( liverpool, arsenal as well) .
inter ?!
ah yes, no money, no vision, fft, …
Yes to him, maybe we can get denis suarez too
I would easily say yes for this move. Spanish league is notably produce excellent technical and high creativity mid. Probably, he could resemble his older brother. If so, we wouldn’t have to wait too long to get Borja’s heir. #fingercross
Would like him to join. He´s still only 24 years old (turns 25 next month) so has the right age. Plus he´s capable of playing both in central midfield (best in a 3 man midfield I guess) as a right winger (possition he´s getting for us, right?) where he is very good at cutting in side and shot or pass with his prefered left foot. Or can play as an attacking midfielder.
He´s technically really good, very fast and seems like a player we could need… question is why he should join us and not a team in Spain or somewhere else if he really is interested in leaving.
because we are an ambitious club with long and proud history
True we have a huge name still in international football.. but Celta Vigo wants him too, and Rafinha actually playeda season on loan for them 2013-2014 and then his coach at Celta was Enrique and his assistent back then is the Current coach of Celta, so Rafinha knows both the club, the coach and of course the Spanish league.
Whereas he doesn’t know the Italian league at all, doesn’t know our coach and doesn’t know Inter (except the name, but still needs time to adjust to new surroundings at Inter.)
If he´s plan is to make it into the Brazilian squad for the WC a safer move would be to Celta, but of course Inter has a great name world wide still…. Hope he joins!
Only fans still believe inter still big club in the europe.