[AS] The sporting management of FC Barcelona is aware that sooner rather than later, Lamine Yamal must become the highest-paid player in the squad.

The club’s sporting management is aware that sooner rather than later he must become the highest paid player in the squad, but they also want to emphasise that he is a 17-year-old boy and that his contractual improvements must be progressive so as not to ruin the club again and have problems with fair play or high salaries.

“You can’t give a 17-year-old 15 million euros clean because at 23 he can ask for double that amount…”, say sources at the club. That is why the main task in the next renewal, which according to Jorge Mendes, his agent, should not take too long to sign, is to convince Lamine and those around him that the best thing for him and the future of the club is to improve his contractual conditions over time and not with spectacular salary increases that endanger the sustainability of the wage bill and the economy of the club itself.