Loan with 10M buy option and
they don't even want to pay his wages? How cheap can it get, next step they demand Barca to pay them 10M for the loan
It's not like they don't want to but more they can't afford to pay him 6,5M gross. They already went way overboard to give that much to Denis. For example, Aspas is paid a bit less than 4M gross as by far their best and most important player and other players like Mallo, Lobotka and Mina are getting around 2M gross. Not to mention Rafinha is injury prone so even bigger risk for Celta to pay him high salary.
I think it's possible if we'll go this way Rafinha will have to accept pay cut in his contract renewal. It depends on how much he wants to return to Celta. Denis and his other friends from Celta are pushing hard to get him.
This deal is probably also depending on if Celta will manage to offload Pione Sisto today. He's like their Dembele and doesn't want to leave.