The offer was first reported in June, with PSG allegedly leading the pitch. However, when club president Joan Laporta acknowledged the proposition in an internal media interview in October, he declined to identify the team in question.

Enric Masip, a member of the sports commission and Laporta’s counsel, has now acknowledged that the French powerhouses were the ones who made an attempt to recruit Yamal.

“The president has already said that there was an offer worth €250m that was rejected and never even considered,” he stated to El Chiringuito. “It came from France.”

When asked explicitly if PSG was attempting to get Yamal to replace Kylian Mbappe, who was headed to Real Madrid, Masip responded, “When you have the money to spend, you can aspire to try and sign whoever you want.”

Masip continued by acknowledging that Yamal’s rise coincided with Madrid’s signing of Mbappe, which threatened to tip the scales in favor of Los Blancos.

“I would say that right now he’s the most decisive player [in the world], yes,” Masip said. For us, a 17-year-old boy is the best in the world, but I don’t believe it’s really a good thing to say that.”

We haven’t won the lottery, but the year Mbappe chooses to move to Madrid, which was the icing on the cake for a team that had already won the Champions League and La Liga, a 16-year-old kid shows up, wins the European Championship, and quickly becomes a worldwide sensation.

“All of a sudden, you’re in a league that started out as Mbappe’s league and ends up being the league of [Yamal] because of the way he plays and looks. He is not the same player.

“What Lamine does is something you saw in [Lionel] Messi, something distinct from what Vinicius Junior and Mbappe, players with speed and that quality, can accomplish.”

“He does something that leaves you speechless in every game. Having a player like that is a privilege for Barca and La Liga.”