A week after the market closes, Samuel Umtiti is still self-chained to Barça, who does not see the way to get rid of him, despite the shadow of the Matheus Fernandes route, the dismissal by email, still there. The player has communicated to the club that he is not convinced by any of the proposals he has and that he wants to continue belonging to the Barça discipline. Basically, a pulse so that they pay him the entire contract that, in 2018, President Josep Maria Bartomeu signed him knowing that his left knee was not in condition and that the club's medical services did not give the go-ahead to the herself.
Since that summer of 2018, in which Umtiti was one of the heroes of world champion France, he has played 49 games in three seasons. But more disappointing than that was his reluctance to follow the club's medical advice and, above all, how he was erased, to the displeasure of his teammates, in a disappointing way, at the end of the 2019-20 season., that of the pandemic and 2-8 in Lisbon against Bayern.
“Nothing happens, it's life,” Umtiti told a fan at the Ciutat Esportiva a few days ago when he encouraged him and reproached the club for its behavior with him. The situation is irreversible. Either by order of the club or because his level is still not as required despite the fact that in recent months he has tried to regain better habits, Koeman has not counted on him. Barça is pressing for him to accept any of the proposals that come from France. But the player has the upper hand. Sad ending for a player who came almost anonymously from Olympique Lyonnais and became an idol in his first two seasons, and that has later been repudiated by the fans.