PSG Eyes Barça’s Rising Star Lamine Yamal for Mega Transfer

That would be a transfer hit!

It looks like PSG are planning a frontal attack on Barca. As the French newspaper “Le Parisien” reports, Paris chose Barça’s gem Lamine Yamal (16) as their main transfer target for the upcoming summer transfer phase.

FC Barcelona may have to worry about its strongest young player. Yamal is expected to be the new face of FC Barcelona. He is considered Barca’s greatest talent since Lionel Messi (36). This season, the player has already played 44 games for the Catalans (six goals, eight assists) – at just 16 years old.

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According to Le Parisien, PSG have Yamal in their sights. The Barça star could replace Kylian Mbappé (25), who is likely to move to Real Madrid this summer. However, there might only be an opportunity to move if Yamal himself expressed a clear desire to move.

It seems that Barça have already rejected a mega offer of 200 million euros from PSG for Yamal. The President of Barça, Joan Laporta (61), said: “We rejected that because we have confidence in the boy and his sporting development. We don’t need it, we are in the process of economic recovery and we see the light at the end of the tunnel. “

Paris knows how expensive Yamal’s move would be, if it were even possible. But thanks to last summer’s departures (Neymar, Lionel Messi, Marco Verratti and Sergio Ramos) and Mbappé’s upcoming move, PSG have significantly improved their balance sheets and therefore have options for Forward movement attack on Barça.

Alex Pintanel (39), Barça commentator since 2017 (currently for “Relevo”), about Yamal: “No one wants to compare him directly with Lionel Messi yet. But when you talk to people from La Masia’s youth academy, they say at least: They haven’t seen someone like Lamine Yamal from Messi,” adding, “There are many things that remind me of Messi. for example, the physical discomfort or the feeling that the ball is stuck in the leg.

Yamal, the son of a Moroccan father and an Equatorial Guinean mother, grew up in a working class area of ​​Barcelona and entered the famous La Masia academy at the age of five. Off the field he is considered conservative and moderate. But he also regularly gives TV interviews after matches.

In September, Barça extended his youth contract until 2026. It included an option for the contract to be extended three years in 2025, when he turns 18. And an exit clause of a billion euros! It was negotiated by the star consultant Jorge Mendes (58), who has a close relationship with the president of the club Laporta.

But: Mendes is also a mentor to many PSG stars and is said to have a very good relationship with Paris boss Luis Campos. So it is possible that he will send Yamal to Paris as well…