<p class="title">Barcelona forward Rafinha has joined Celta Vigo on loan until the end of the season, the clubs announced on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rafinha spent a year on loan at Celta in 2013-14 and will rejoin the Galician side in the hope of being given more opportunities to play.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Barca have also extended Rafinha's contract to prevent the Brazilian being able to leave on a free next summer.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"FC Barcelona and the Rafinha player have reached an agreement for the renewal of his contract until the end of the 2020/21 season," Barca said in a statement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Likewise, FC Barcelona and Celta have reached an agreement for the transfer of the player for the 2019/20 season."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Celta will pay Rafinha's contract and could owe Barcelona a further 1.5 million euros in potential add-ons.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Brought through at Barcelona with his brother Thiago Alcantara, who is at Bayern Munich, Rafinha's career has been interrupted by serious knee injuries in 2015, 2017 and 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He has also struggled for minutes under Ernesto Valverde and looked set for another season on the fringes, behind the likes of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Celta called it a "particularly exciting return" and said Rafinha, who grew up in Vigo, would add "enormous quality, versatility, commitment, and enthusiasm".</p>
<p class="title">Barcelona forward Rafinha has joined Celta Vigo on loan until the end of the season, the clubs announced on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rafinha spent a year on loan at Celta in 2013-14 and will rejoin the Galician side in the hope of being given more opportunities to play.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Barca have also extended Rafinha's contract to prevent the Brazilian being able to leave on a free next summer.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"FC Barcelona and the Rafinha player have reached an agreement for the renewal of his contract until the end of the 2020/21 season," Barca said in a statement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Likewise, FC Barcelona and Celta have reached an agreement for the transfer of the player for the 2019/20 season."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Celta will pay Rafinha's contract and could owe Barcelona a further 1.5 million euros in potential add-ons.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Brought through at Barcelona with his brother Thiago Alcantara, who is at Bayern Munich, Rafinha's career has been interrupted by serious knee injuries in 2015, 2017 and 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He has also struggled for minutes under Ernesto Valverde and looked set for another season on the fringes, behind the likes of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Celta called it a "particularly exciting return" and said Rafinha, who grew up in Vigo, would add "enormous quality, versatility, commitment, and enthusiasm".</p>