Jorge Mendes: Lamine Yamal was the very best participant of 2024, will renew with Barcelona

On the latest Globe Soccer Awards gala, Barcelona’s younger sensation Lamine Yamal and his agent Jorge Mendes each walked away with prestigious accolades.

Yamal was honoured with the Finest Rising Participant award, following a superb yr that noticed him win the European Championship and set up himself as one of many hottest prospects in world soccer.

Mendes, in the meantime, was celebrated because the Finest Agent, a testomony to his influential function in soccer administration.

Mendes on Lamine Yamal

Following the awards, Jorge Mendes was clear about Lamine Yamal’s future, suggesting that the Spaniard is right here to remain.

“Lamine’s future is in Barcelona. Barcelona is his place. He’ll renew his contract and can keep there for a few years,” he stated.

One other accolade for Lamine Yamal (Picture by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Photographs)

Mendes’ assertion is a transparent indication that Yamal’s future at Barcelona received’t be a speaking level in Europe anytime quickly.

Mendes additionally touched on why Yamal won’t have been thought-about for the Finest Males’s Participant Award, which went to Actual Madrid’s Vinicius.

“Lamine Yamal was the very best participant on the planet this yr however he’s a sufferer of his age. Many individuals who voted thought he was 17 and would have time to win these awards,” he defined.

Lastly, Mendes talked about Yamal being in comparison with none apart from Lionel Messi and the early pressures he’s dealing with in his profession.

Mendes, although, was agency in his stance. “I don’t like evaluating gamers and I didn’t discover any stress.”

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