Obviously, Raphinha isn’t the best player in world football
Raphinha is honestly one of the best stories in world football when you really think about it. Guy gets plucked out of obscurity, becomes a hero for a team most people don't care about in the Premier League in Leeds United, gets courted by Arsenal and Chelsea to make the next step up, and then somehow ends up at one of the biggest clubs ever in Barcelona at a time when they desperately need to win the league in order to avoid going insolvent in the future because they mortgaged their future debt and TV revenue.
And Raphinha ended up repaying Barcelona's gamble on a winger who could barely get 10 goals and 10 assists in a season for Leeds. He didn't get 10 goals or even 10 assists in his first season with Barcelona, but he won the league immediately, combining with Robert Lewandowski to ...