‘It came from France’ - Barca confirm €250m bid for Yamal
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Barcelona executive Enric Masip has confirmed that the club did receive a huge €250 million offer for Lamine Yamal and that it “came from France.”
Club president Joan Laporta has already claimed he turned down an eye-watering offer for Yamal, and Masip has basically confirmed what we all know - that it came from PSG.
“The president has already said that there was an offer worth €250m that was rejected and never even considered,” he told El Chiringuito. “It came from France.”
Masip also went on to speak in glowing terms about Yamal and made it clear just how delighted he is to have the teenager at the club.
“I would say that right now he’s the most decisive player [in the world], yes,” he said. “I don’t think it’s necessarily good to speak about a 17-year-old kid being the best in the world, but for us, he is.
“I wouldn’t say we have won the lottery, but the year that Mbappé decides to go to Madrid — which was the cherry on top of the cake for a team that had won La Liga and the Champions League — you have a 16-year-old kid appear who wins the European Championship [with Spain] and becomes a global phenomenon in a very short time.
“Suddenly, you’re in a league that begins as the league of Mbappé and it becomes the league of [Yamal] with the way he appears and plays in such a fun way — he is a different player.
“What Vinícius Júnior can do, Mbappé can do, players with speed, with that quality ... what Lamine does is something you saw in Messi, something different. Every game he does something that leaves you with your mouth open. It’s a privilege for LaLiga and Barça to have a player like that.”
Yamal is currently recovering from an ankle injury, which saw him miss out on international duty with Spain, but he is expected back shortly.
Source: barcablaugranes.com
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