Source: https://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2024/03/23/65ff2587268e3e27078b45c6.html
It was like a fairy tale when Joan Laporta said there was an offer from a club trying to offer Lamine Yamal a transfer fee of 200 million euros and he firmly rejected it. I mean, if what he said was true he should have released Lamine Yamal and when else could he produce that much for a player. Apart from that, the offer also seems unreasonable because Lamine Yamal, who is still 16 years old, has a team that costs him 200 million euros and his market value even exceeds that of Erling Haaland or Kylian Mbappe.
I can't understand why Barcelona has a club president as funny as Joan Laporta and he continues to create sensations amidst the club's decline due to the financial crisis. I think again, if the offer was real, 200 million should be able to fix existing financial problems and on the other hand he could buy better players for long-term investment. Isn't that quite reasonable? but once again this is just a ridiculous statement from the club president and I don't believe it.
You know there is a Barcelona tradition about pricing their promising young players. They simply put a release clause of 1 billion euros on their contract and that's it! This is for the aim of showing no intention to sell those players to other teams. I haven't heard any player rejecting this release clause yet. Pedri, Gavi and Yamal all have it on their contracts.
Barcelona had better not lose this kind of valuable players of course. They are building their future around these players. Barcelona can fix their finances without selling this kind of players as well but they need time for that.