Samuel Umtiti is a key piece in the diagrams of Ernesto Valverde and also went it with Luis Enrique. His big performance has turned him into one of the most important players, so much by the  level showed as by appreciate of the barcelonismo and of the changing room. That's why the renewal of the French defender is in these moments one of the aims of the club.

Nevertheless, the situation is not being so easy to cover as it expected in a principle. According to the information of several sectors of the press, Umtiti is not had to renew if it is not by an index card that situate him in the second stair salarial of the staff, just by behind Leo Messi and equated with Luis Suárez.

Josep Maria Bartomeu, president of the FC Barcelona, spoke of the subject in statements for the program 'The Crossbar' of the Chain BE. The Barcelona director recognised that the club has the intention to retain to Samuel Umtiti, but always of some reasonable economic conditions and that do not break the balance.

Bartomeu has clear that Umtiti is a very important player, but that no will renew him to any price. "It is a very important player, remain him three years of agreement and our will is that it follow", commented the president, although matizó that it has to do it "inside a scale salarial and of some parameters that allow us keep on being competitive".

The clause of Umtiti concerns

Samuel Umtiti, in spite of being indisputable headline in the defence of the FC Barcelona and form part of the group of players that have greater confidence by part of the technicians, does not have an agreement to the height of the big stars of the team. What more concerns is his irrisoria clause, that neither is to the height of a so important footballer.

Paying hardly 60 million euros, any team could carry to the central and take it out of the FC Barcelona. In fact, the figure is inferior to many of the defences that have fichado the last months. If the Liverpool paid 85 millions by Go Dijk and the Manchester City 65 by Aymeric Laporte, anybody denies that they can not do it by Umtiti.