Barcelona have been making headlines since the start of the 2024/2025 season with their stellar performances since the appointment of Hansi Flick.
The Catalan club have been a different team under the club’s legend Xavi, scoring goals for fun with a winning mentality.
Players are increasingly becoming fun to watch, and the move to extend the contracts of key players is already underway.
In the January winter transfer window, the club’s sporting director successfully extended the contracts of Pedri, Gavi, Araujo, and Pau Cubarsi.
The exercise was halted until the move of Vitor Roque was sealed and the contract extension for Inigo Martinez until 2026 was announced.
With Jules Kounde and Raphinha’s contract talks soon to open, the Blaugrana have the contract of Lamine Yamal to be agreed on.
According to AS, Lamine Yamal signed a contract with Barcelona until the summer of 2026 in 2023. However, he also included a second extension until 2030, which would take effect immediately the following year.
However, the 17-year-old could be out of contract in just over a year because the agreement was not formalized due to the club’s FFP issue.
The sale of Brazilian striker Vitor Roque to Palmeiras last month has created enough financial room for the agreement to be sealed after a saga with La Liga and RFEF, which saw the intervention of FIFA.
In the wake of this, Barcelona want to make the youngster the highest-paid player at the club but don’t want to repeat the same situation as with Lionel Messi.
In 2021, he moved on a free transfer to Paris Saint-Germain. The club’s debt was more than £1 billion due to years of extravagance and the financial consequences of the coronavirus outbreak, so they couldn’t afford to offer the Argentine a new contract. They don’t want to be overburdened by Yamal’s contract.
The club is aware that they need to do everything to tie Lamine Yamal to the club for a long time, as it is not news that many elite clubs are lining up for the service of the Spanish winger.
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