LEEDS BOSS Jesse Marsch says not entirely settled to get the best out of Raphinha while he stays at the club.
Brazil winger Raphinha, who marked a four-year bargain when he joined Leeds from Rennes in October 2020, has been vigorously connected with a transition to Barcelona in the late spring.
Leeds have been in converses with his representative, previous Barcelona midfielder Deco, in regards to another agreement, however Marsch said he had not examined his future with the player past the flow season.
Marsch said: "He is a huge ability and my test, in spite of the discussion outside, is all to have the relationship where we can zero in on his improvement in aiding the group while he is here.
"I haven't had a word with him about Deco or Barcelona. It (Barca's advantage) ought to be out there since he is incredible.
"I simply maintain that he should turn into the player I realize he can be. Everybody here needs to partake in the football he can play and obviously, we believe he should remain to the extent that this would be possible. He's a fabulous player and an excellent individual."
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Raphinha missed Leeds' success at Wolves before the global break subsequent to testing positive for Covid yet is back in conflict for Saturday's home Premier League game against Southampton.
Marsch affirmed both Kalvin Phillips and Liam Cooper were in conflict to begin however said nor was "an hour and a half fit".
"I don't figure we can begin the two of them since it becomes two subs we might need to make," Marsch said.
"I've addressed the two of them and they are both feeling better. They're looking far better. I'm eager to have them in the gathering now and accept they can have an effect."
Leeds' endurance bid was managed a blow before in the week when it was affirmed Patrick Bamford confronted a further a month and a half uninvolved because of a foot injury.
However, Marsch is confident last season's driving objective scorer will be fit before the finish of the momentum crusade.
Bamford, who has missed huge lumps of the time following a progression of various wounds, had been playing through the issue prior to bursting his plantar sash at Wolves.
Marsch added: "a month and a half method he can make the last two matches. We need to keep a watch out, yet he is strolling better and torment free, which he wasn't throughout the previous four months. We're hopeful and confident."
Bamford's mournful reaction to pulling up at Molineux was caught by the TV cameras.
The England striker told Sky Sports: "It's been somewhat of a trashy year for me, clearly had a couple of wounds, so the way that I'd made a respectable attempt to finish back and everything I could and afterward for it to go once more, and this time completely go…
"I was OK falling off and afterward it was only after I plunked down on the seat that it sort of hit me a smidgen, yet Coops and Kalv (Cooper and Phillips) were perfect.
"Unexpectedly, the two Coops and Kalvin understand what it's like, particularly these most recent couple of months.
"Coops clearly is an incredible chief and did what a commander ought to do and afterward Kalv, being one of my great mates, it was only ideal to realize they were there for me."
Goalkeeper Illan Meslier, Mateusz Klich and Diego Llorente, who were undeniably constrained off because of injury at Wolves, are supposed to include against Southampton.
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