Barcelona reiterate that PSG offered a fortune to Lamine Yamal to replace Mbappé

A European football bombshell revealed on Tuesday that last summer's transfer window saw PSG attempt to sign young Barcelona star Lamine Yamal in exchange for $264 million, to fill the void left by Kylian's departure Mbappe for Real Madrid.

In the end, it would all have been an attempt, like Barcelona has all his confidence in Lamine and that's it. For anecdote, the president of the club, Joan Laporta, he was simply referring to an offer that was ultimately rejected.

“The president has already said that he had an offer of 250 million (euros) that he had rejected, that he had never considered it,” Masip explained in an interview with several Spanish media. He added:

“When you have money and you can afford it, you can aspire to sign everything. Right now he is (Lamine Yamal) the most decisive footballer… Talking about a boy of 17 years as the best in the world. I think it's not good for him.”

He also recognized the evolution of his young figure and his specific weight in the Blaugrana club: “It's different… What Lamine does is something we saw in Messi, something different from everyone. What Vinicius can do, Mbappe can do, players with this speed, with this quality, but it's different. Can he be the best in the world? Yes, but it’s better to stay calm.” Finally he said that “His arrival at Barça was like a lottery.”

“Well, I wouldn't say it's like a lottery, but it was the year Mbappé decided to go to Real Madrid, which was the icing on the cake for a championship-winning team, and you get a 16-year-old boy who wins the European Championship and becomes a global phenomenon in a very short time,” he said.

PSG categorically refuses the offer for Yamal

However, PSG rejected any rumors coming from the Catalan leadership regarding this alleged offer. According to French newspaper L'Equipe, an official club source “categorically” denied there was any offer for the 17-year-old.

In fact, this is the second time that the club has refused any approach for Lamine and only accepts that only the the club's sporting director, Luis Campos, approach Lamine's representative, Jorge Mendesto know the player's situation, but informally and within the framework of the friendship they share.

The French source indicated that it is very clear that Lamine Yamal will stay for several years Barcelonaso they did not take any steps in this direction and that is why last year such an offer never existed.