Lamine Yamal: Renewal for Barcelona tied up and almost closed!

Like a Caesar with a 'blaugrana' tie, Joan Laporta took advantage of La Vanguardia's platform not to clarify doubts, but to write with institutional ink the next page of the 'culé' story: Lamine Yamal's renewal is almost closed.

In a season where Barça has rediscovered titles —League, Cup and Super Cup—, the president has decided that the best move is not to sign more, but to renew better. The message is clear: if the past was rebuilt with epic, the future is built with continuity.

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Lamine Yamal celebrating a goal with FC Barcelona

Probably not now, but he won't be just another one either. Because Barça doesn't just pay him for what he does, but for what he can become: a Messi without an emotional burden or, if you prefer, a Neymar without the reality show hairstyle.

The fact that a teenager is close to becoming one of the highest paid players in the dressing room is still a beautiful symptom of the natural disorder of modern football. Laporta, however, does not see him as a child prodigy, but as a future investment with a guarantee of immediate performance.

"His contract extension is practically already agreed, it only requires its ratification," said Laporta.

The fashionable footballer treasures not only technique and speed, but a personality that seems taken from La Masia's emotional laboratory. And, to the relief of the superstitious, he has the endorsement of Jorge Mendes.

The President of FC Barcelona made it clear that the club values Lamine as one of the pillars of the present and future. "He is a superlative individual talent, but also a team player. He is comfortable, and so is his family," he added.

"At Barça we pay the players in the fair measure of their abilities. We are a club that pays well, but we also say that you are better off at Barça than anywhere else"

Joan Laporta recalled the case of Leo Messi, when Inter tried to sign him in his youth stage, and how the family environment and the club agreed that the 'azulgrana' project was the best to develop his career. "The same thing can happen with Lamine. He has everything to succeed here," he pointed out.

Lamine 2024/25: titles, great goals and ¿Ballon d'Or?

There are talents that dazzle, and there are talents that dazzle too soon. Lamine Yamal, at just 17 years old, is no longer a promise: he is the present. An uncomfortably brilliant present, like those spotlights that prevent you from seeing the rest of the stage.

His irruption has been so unexpected and surprising that there is already talk of Lamine as one of the firm candidates to enter the race for the Ballon d'Or. based on titles, assists and a lot of great goals. His latest masterpiece, against Villarreal in the farewell of Montjuic.

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The young forward has starred in an exceptional 2024/25 season, being one of the leaders of the Barcelona champion of the NATIONAL TREBLE, League, Copa del Rey and Spanish Super Cup and, despite falling in the semifinals of the Champions League, he was the great star of the tie against Inter.

The summer will be key to closing all the pending fringes for the renewal of Lamine, but it is evident that in Barça there is finally an air of stability that had not been seen for years.

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