“Raphinha has serious family and financial problems. He prays to be able to sign at Al-Hilal. He is going through very complicated times. He hopes to be able to go to Al-Hilal to change things”. Former Brazilian international Vampeta’s comments about Raphinha caused a lot of talk earlier this week. And there might be an explanation behind it all…
Indeed, according to Brazilian journalist Léo Dias, the attacker and his wife discovered, when wanting to buy a villa in Barcelona, that their accounts were far from being full. And for good reason, as his partner discovered by investigating a little, numerous contracts linked to the player’s salaries and image rights in particular would have been misappropriated by the father of the Brazilian international, causing a huge crisis in the family. Raphinha would therefore have pocketed only a small part of everything he should have earned in recent years, his father having received a large part of this money in his accounts. Good atmosphere in the family…
