Barcelona president Joan Laporta said the club turned down an offer worth $270 million (€250M) for forward Lamine Yamal in the summer.
Laporta did not reveal who wanted to sign Yamal, but various reports have suggested Paris Saint-Germain had lined the teenager up as a replacement for Kylian Mbappé, who joined Real Madrid earlier this year.
Laporta made the revelation as he defended Barça's decision to let certain players leave, denying that the club's financial problems had forced their hand in certain situations. «There are those that think we have [transferred players] to balance the accounts,» Laporta said in an interview with Barça's in-house television channel. «But that is not the case.
The players that have left have left for sporting reasons. »[Ousmane] Dembélé, [Marc] Guiu… they won't have things as good as they did at Barça at any other club. «We know what we are doing in the transfer market.