Samuel Umtiti's situation within the squad is as enigmatic as it is paradoxical. The French central carries missing from training since July 2, the day he decided, together with the medical services, to start a new conservative treatment with stem cells to solve his discomfort in his left knee. After three months, the international has taken a step forward: this Friday he took to the field to exercise with a recuperator. It was a small step, but a very important one for a player who He has been living a real ordeal for two years due to a chronic degenerative injury cartilage of the left knee.
Right now nobody in the club sets a date for his return, but it would be considered an absolute success if the player recovers before October 5 and his condition can allow him to enter any operation of transfer or assignment for this season, since it does not count in any case in Ronald Koeman's plans.
During these 85 days, Umtiti has also had to overcome the bad drink of the coronavirus, having to be confined at home for fourteen days. This setback was a new stone on the road to his recovery, as it forced him to stop his rehabilitation in his tracks.
By the way, the French do not have them all with him with the medical services of Barcelona. And it is that if in his day he already ignored the Blaugrana doctors about the need to undergo surgery, leaving the Aspetar center in Doha to continue with his recovery, you have now engaged the services of a physical therapist outside the club to complete the recovery work. Apparently in recent days – the Frenchman published an image of him working in his home gym on Thursday on social networks -, the sensations begin to be positive and the player already sees the light in the tunnel.