{"id":35947,"date":"2026-06-06T17:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/35947\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:03:18","slug":"barcelona-not-worried-about-losing-la-masia-prodigy-despite-growing-european-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/35947\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona not worried about losing La Masia prodigy despite growing European interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ebrima Tunkara has been turning heads across European football, and Barcelona are well aware of the attention their prized La Masia talent is attracting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 16-year-old was one of the standout performers at the recent U17 European Championship, finishing the tournament with one goal and five assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This included a remarkable debut against Estonia in which he scored a penalty he won himself and contributed two assists in under 50 minutes. He was the only player in Sergio Garcia\u2019s squad to start every match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scouts from top European clubs were present throughout the tournament, <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-teenage-wonderkid-on-the-radars-of-top-european-clubs-including-man-city-juventus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">monitoring the bright young talent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona have protected themselves<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/619205944_17857592796598433_3393043740469606859_n-1920x1080-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ebrima Tunkara\" class=\"wp-image-200391\"  \/>Ebrima Tunkara has turned heads at La Masia. (Picture credit: Instagram\/@ebrimatunkara10)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport.es\/es\/noticias\/barca\/barca-tiembla-ahora-futuro-ebrima-131085922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Diario SPORT<\/a>, the club are not panicking, as far as Tounkara\u2019s future is concerned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the painful departures of Marc Guiu and Dro in recent years, Barcelona implemented a new policy of progressive release clauses for academy players born from 2008 onwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Starting at a base of \u20ac6 million, it rises to \u20ac8 million upon a Youth League call-up, \u20ac10 million for reserve team appearances, \u20ac20 million upon registration with Barca Atletic, and \u20ac25 million after five first-team appearances, increasing further from there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tunkara has already triggered several of those thresholds. Having made his Youth League debut and received reserve team call-ups, his clause is expected to rise to \u20ac20 million this summer when he is registered with Barca Atletic.<\/p>\n<p>A diamond in the rough<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/619193159_17857592805598433_4758330433875040759_n-1920x1080-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ebrima Tunkara, Barcelona player\" class=\"wp-image-193264\"  \/>All eyes on Ebrima Tunkara this summer. (Picture credit: Instagram\/@ebrimatunkara10)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The youngster, who arrived in Spain in 2017 from Gambia via Mataro, was spotted by Albert Puig in just 10 minutes of a youth match and has been at Barcelona since the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/three-la-masia-prospects-who-could-do-pre-season-with-barcelonas-first-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">expected to join the first team\u2019s pre-season training<\/a> under Hansi Flick on July 13th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From there on, it will be interesting to see whether Tounkara makes an impression and follow in on the footsteps of another kid from Mataro \u2013 Lamine Yamal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ebrima Tunkara has been turning heads across European football, and Barcelona are well aware of the attention their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,222,14863],"class_list":["post-35947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-news","tag-ebrima-tunkara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}