Barcelona were forced to return to their academy and in the cases of Pedri and Ronald Araujo, the younger talents brought in, because of their finances in recent years. Yet the positive results could hardly have been imagined, as illustrated by the Golden Boy Award.
Second Sport among others, Yamal plates will be announced as the winner of the award on Wednesday by Tuttosport, and will collect the award on December 16 at a gala event. That will make it three years out of the last four that the Blaugrana have had the winner of the prize, after Pedri and Gavi in 2021 and 2022. The only player to break his monopoly was Jude Bellingham last year.
Fermín López and Pablo Gavi could have overtaken Frenkie de Jong in Hansi Flick's midfield hierarchy. @sport
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His Real Madrid teammates Arda Guler and Endrick Felipe have also been nominated for the award, as have Pau Cubarsi, Valencia's Cristhian Mosquera, Spain international Samu Omorodion and ex-Girona winger Savio Moreira. Lamine Yamal seems like the obvious choice this season though.
The 17-year-old locked down a starting place in Barcelona's line-up in the second half of last season, and was one of the inspirations behind Spain's Euro 2024 triumph in Germany this summer. He has six goals and eight assists in 16 appearances so far this year, but has again been crucial for the Blaugrana.
