Lamine Yamal signs Barcelona contract extension until 2031: Here’s why Spain star’s deal is key for club
Lamine Yamal signs Barcelona contract extension until 2031: Here’s why Spain star’s deal is key for club
Lamine Yamal signed a new contract with Barcelona on Tuesday that will hold him in the club until 2031, and teased that the 17-year-old will be a central point of the club’s plans for the future. Yamal was an important contribution to Barcelona during the 2024-25 season and played 55 games in all games when the La Liga and Copa del Rey team won. The 17-year-old scored 18 goals and noted 21 assists en route and earned a place in the team of the La Liga season.
Representatives of Yamal and Barcelona had been discussing a new deal since his previous contract in 2026 for months. He was rather limited to signing deals that were a maximum of three years as a player under the age of 18, but he turns 18 in July. The midfielder has reportedly earned a wage increase, but the conditions of the new deal are currently not known, Per ESPN.
Yamal joins teammate Raphinha and manager Hansi Flick in signing new contracts in Barcelona, who marks a voice of confidence in the current group after their double -winning season.
Yamal’s interest for Barcelona
For Barcelona it agrees with a new deal with Yamal a no-brainer-not alone, he is one of their best players, but the 17-year-old will be ready to be the biggest star of the club in the coming years.
Between his outbreak during the 2023-24 campaign, his peak with Spain during last year’s euros and his excellence during the double-winning season of Barcelona, Yamal has really settled as one of the greatest rising talents in sport. He already earns comparisons with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo – he had 50 goals and assists in his first 100 games, only six behind Messi at that stage in his club career and well for Ronaldo’s census of 27 at that time.
Yamal’s Rise offers another example that the greatest power of Barcelona remains their academy, who has built dozens of remarkable talents, including Messi, Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta. The double -winning party of Flick included various other home -grown talents, such as Pedri and Gavi.
However, the fact that Barcelona can continue to trust at their academy is especially good news for a cash-strapped club. The years of financial crisis of the club has made it incredibly difficult to sign top talents that are available through the transfer market, so much so that they had trouble registering Dani Olmo last winter and needed the Spain’s National Sports Council to officially erase him to play. Their financial restrictions caused destruction during the Stint of Xavi as manager from 2021 to 2024, but there are positive collection restaurants from that experience – academic products could provide valuable experience that is bearing fruit with this year’s trophies.
