{"id":1150007,"date":"2022-07-15T15:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/15\/barcelona-sign-raphinha-from-leeds-united-in-deal-worth-up-to-55m\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T15:35:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:35:05","slug":"barcelona-sign-raphinha-from-leeds-united-in-deal-worth-up-to-55m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/15\/barcelona-sign-raphinha-from-leeds-united-in-deal-worth-up-to-55m\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona sign Raphinha from Leeds United in deal worth up to \u00a355m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Barcelona have signed Brazil forward Raphinha from Leeds United in a deal worth up to \u00a355m.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Brazilian forward was unveiled to fans at the Catalan club\u2019s training ground on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Raphinha, who joined Leeds from French side Rennes for \u00a317m in 2020, made 65 Premier League appearances for the Yorkshire club, scoring 17 goals and providing 12 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Raphinha is here! \ud83d\udc4b<br \/>\ud83d\udccd Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper pic.twitter.com\/GWjb33pEbs<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) July 15, 2022<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true since I was a kid,\u201d Raphinha told Barca TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to give my best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leeds United paid tribute to Raphinha in a club statement confirming his departure: \u201cWe would like to place on record our sincere gratitude to Raphinha for his effort and contribution whilst at the football club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe showed unquestionable commitment and professionalism until the very end of his time at Elland Road and his celebrations at the Brentford Community Stadium will live long in the memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raphinha scored a penalty for Leeds in a 2-1 victory at Brentford on the final day of the 2021\/22 season that secured their place in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC SPORTS<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have signed Brazil forward Raphinha from Leeds United in a deal worth up to \u00a355m. The 25-year-old Brazilian forward was unveiled to fans at the Catalan club\u2019s training ground on Friday. Raphinha, who joined Leeds from French side Rennes for \u00a317m in 2020, made 65 Premier League appearances for the Yorkshire club, scoring 17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1150009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20017,656,807,5280,16117,801,2822,4941],"class_list":["post-1150007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-55m","tag-barcelona","tag-deal","tag-leeds","tag-raphinha","tag-sign","tag-united","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}