Cjay wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:05 pm
Raph at this moment is a £80mil player easily.
In his first Prem season he was top 10 for chances created per game and chances created overall in the league and top 10 for assists. To put into context the sort of numbers he was managing, Bruno Fernandes surrounded by top class players was making a chance every 33 minutes, Raph was every 36minutes.
To further enforce Raph's stats.
Jack Grealish cost Man City £100million, in his Premier League career he has managed a goal or an assist every 212minutes. If you only take his 2 seasons for Villa since promotion, so similar to Rap[h now its 169 minutes.
Raphinha is every 163 minutes.
Playing for Man City surrounded by world class players this season Grealish has 1 goal and 1 assist in 588 Premier League minutes.
Raph has 3 goals in 586 playing with Tyler Roberts, Stuart Dallas and co.
Raph also last season was killing the pressing and sprinting stats, a fact that gets mentioned often, he isnt a flair player with no substance, the guy practically runs himself into the ground every game.
And of course Raph is the new golden boy of the most successful international footballing nation with 2 goals and 2 assists in only 144 minutes (Brazilian media have been running stories on Raph all week)
Grealish on the other hand has 1 goal and 5 assists in 946 minutes.
One is thriving under new pressure another not so much.
Lets no do raph down here and be lil old LUFC, 16 years in the wilderness lets just take what we can.
Raph is our golden boy, losing him will be really sad and ideally i dont want him to go, if he goes we must squeeze every penny out of him and for me Premier League clubs you add on another £10mil, so £80mil right now, if he continues the sort of form he has shown until the end of the season then he definitely is a £100mil player.
That being said as i said before imo the club should stay strong this summer, say to Raph "look we will give you a new deal, make you our highest earner, give us 1 more season, if you want to go next summer ( he will only be 26 then same age as Grealish now) then we will let you go"
The reason for that is because in December time next year the 2022 World Cup takes place, if Raph does well there for Brazil we wont be talking about is Raph a £100mil player, we will be talking about is he a £150mil player.
So for me Raph today is a £70-80mil player easily, on his current trajectory he will be a £100mil player next summer and potentially a £150mil on the summer after.