Lamine Yamal's father posts photo with girlfriend Inés García to dispel rift rumours

A photo to quash the rumours

Mounir Nasraoui, the father of Barcelona and Spain winger Lamine Yamal, posted an Instagram photo on 26 October showing him hugging Inés García, his son's girlfriend, in the kitchen of the house the couple share. The first image carried the caption "Te presto a mi hijo", which translates as "I lend you my son". Reports had speculated since the summer of 2026 that father and son had drifted apart, and that the club had advised the player that his father should stay in the background.

The rumours traced back to the World Cup. Mounir did not travel to the United States to watch Spain win the tournament against Argentina, citing health problems, and the reports say he has epilepsy. Inés García, Yamal's mother Sheila Ebana and his younger brother did make the trip.

Family photos and a heart reaction

A second post, showing Mounir with his son and the couple's two Golden Retriever puppies, carried another message from the father:

“Father and son, there is only one.”

Yamal answered that post with a heart emoji. In a further clip Mounir shared a video of himself carefully brushing one of the puppies. The house in the photos is the mansion once owned by Shakira and Gerard Piqué. Yamal bought it at the end of 2025 for 11 million euros, and the couple have shared it since the summer of 2026.

A separate live video

An Instagram live video filmed in Pedralbes, a district of Barcelona, showed Mounir complaining that a dog fountain had not worked for two weeks. Another neighbour agreed with him, but a viewer told him to get to work and called him shameless. Mounir replied that he did not need to work because he had millions. Dani Mateo reacted to the clip and advised him to stop talking, make some clips and upload them with a cheerful soundtrack.

Yamal's home life

In a separate El Periódico interview, Yamal said a chef comes to his house in the evenings to teach him to cook. He said he still cannot prepare couscous, his favourite Moroccan dish, or the peanut rice from Guinea, which he also named as a favourite. His father is Moroccan and his mother comes from Equatorial Guinea, and he said the family cooks Moroccan, Guinean and Spanish food at home.