That Samuel Umtiti has spent four years without raising his head is something unquestionable. Since he signed his renewal in 2018, everything that has surrounded the French center-back has been a spiral of bad news and wrong decisions. His stubbornness not to undergo surgery for a joint degeneration of the left knee led him to become a globetrotter of alternative therapies in search of a solution. Four years later, his knee is held up with pins.
Umtiti, who at least agreed to lower his salary in a renewal that surprised locals and strangers, He had just come out of Covid: he is the only player in the squad who had tested positive twice this season. His future was pending that the club received an offer, something that was not happening in any case, despite the fact that for the first time he contemplated an exit in the form of a transfer.
And in those were the club and the player when bad news blew up all the plans that had been and would have been: Umtiti suffered a trauma in Monday’s session that caused a fracture of the fifth metatarsal of his right foot. This Tuesday he will be operated on by Dr. Antoni Dalmau, according to the medical report issued by the club.
After the operation, the club will provide a new statement on the prognosis of his recovery. As it was a fracture of the foot, an injury very similar to the one suffered by Ferran Torres, the time off could easily last about three months, so you could practically say that the season is over for the center-back.