We will have Rapinha so I don't care. This 2 are great options for RW.
Signing Dembele on a free is better than paying 65m for Raphinha. I'm sure Xavi has insisted on the signing of Dembele like with Kessie.
Hopefully we can add Luis Suarez on a free instead of 60m for Lewandowski. He is only a year older.
Then with a bit of luck next season we can add Messi and Busquets.
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Signing Dembele, after he proved he is a flop, is for sure better than signing a player that was also wanted by Bayern, Liverpool, and Chelsea, 3 of the last 4 CL winners.
If you're aiming for the top 4 in Spain that is.
Raphinha is not a certain hit. But he proved himself in the hardest league in the world. Something Dembele never did. Dembele is already damaged goods for me. I saw enough of him to know he'll never be good enough for the top level.
Unfortunately, he was good for us last season because we've actually been used to seeing players like Jutgla, Demir, Ilias and other raw kids who probably won't make it big. When you talk about other teams... they kind of have better players than Dembele already.
We have to admit finaly that Dembele is not that good of a player as some of the members here think. He has a lots of minuses which prevent him to become a world class winger.
Dembele is good if you are comparing him to some average kid with no experience. Then of course you see Dembele making some stuff happen and you think this guy is great. And then you look at Vinicius humiliating City's defenders in the CL semifinals, and scoring the winner in a CL final, and you realize Dembele is just average for the elite level.
For the level we aspire to get to, Dembele is never going to be better than a rotation player. A bench player you put him in when the game is not going well and you need to take a risk.
With hopes to get Lewa so there is actually someone to be targeted at.
In before he gets injured in like 5 games.
I presumed that Raphinha was back up in case we lost Dembele !?!?!
Can he sign for us or any other club already? FFS