The great season of Barça, especially the great 2025, is largely due to the great performance of players like Lamine Yamal. The youth player is synonymous with success. Since joining the Barça and Spanish national team, everything has been a success for the young Barça youth player who seems tireless and omnipresent. This week against Borussia, he was present in practically all of Hansi Flick‘s team’s attacking moves and also scored a goal, the fourth, which sealed the tie.
At just 17 years and 270 days old, Lamine Yamal has reached 20 matches played in the UEFA Champions League. With this, he has further consolidated his position as the player with the most appearances in the competition before reaching the age of majority, being the first to achieve such numbers.
According to the website specialized in metrics analysis, ‘DataMB’, the Spanish-Moroccan striker is the only winger in the seven major European leagues to be in the 95th percentile or higher in assists, key passes and successful dribbles.
The data from this web portal indicates that Lamine Yamal is in the 100th percentile in successful dribbles and attacking actions. He also appears in the 99th percentile in key passes, 96th in assists, 95th in the combination of goals and assists, and 94th in progressive carries.
A renewal in progress
Lamine Yamal’s current contract expires in 2026, and although there is a ‘verbal agreement’ to extend it until 2030 when he turns 18, the lack of financial guarantees is thought to have caused the player’s renewal to come to a standstill. If Barça does not renew his contract before December 31st of this year, Lamine could negotiate with other clubs from January 1st, 2026 and leave for free on June 30th of the same year.
The contract extension negotiations are being handled with great secrecy on all sides. Lamine’s value is no longer just about his salary. He also makes the Barça brand more valuable. That is what his agent, Jorge Mendes, who works with Deco, with whom he has a good relationship, understands, in harmonizing his demands with those of the club as much as possible.
FC Barcelona have shown their willingness to meet Lamine’s expectations by paying him an estimated salary of between 7 and 10 million euros per season, although a higher figure is not ruled out. The date for signing Lamine’s new contract is July 13-14, when he turns 18, but everything previously discussed with Mendes is verbal and subject to review, as the club admits.