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.
Laporta exaggerated so that the media turned their attention to Yamal, who recently became the hero of Barcelona victory. Everyone must remember and learn that when Laporta needed finances in the past he also sacrificed very important players. Now, little by little, that will happen and Yamal must be prepared for all possibilities, because in football money is the lubricant for a club to survive.