Umtiti, heading to Turkey?: The central defender negotiates his future with four clubs

The future of Samuel Umtiti is very far of the FC Barcelona. The defender of 28 years renewed his agreement with the club the past month of January to go down his index card and facilitate a possible traspaso in summer, which could have to the Superliga Turkish like destination. As it advances 'Fanatik', the one of Yaoundé is negotiating with until four clubs of the country otomano, with which expects to define his future in the weeks to come.

In this sense, Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray and Trabzonspor would be the distinguished clubs, although for the moment the player has not found answers. His long inactivity during the last year plays him against, since the player did not explain for the Barça in all the season. For the defender, the ideal would be to return to his country, but up to now any club has contacted him. From here the interest of his representative in testing luck in Turkey, a competitive league in where the strong clubs pay very well.

Umtiti Only contested 1 party of LaLiga in the 2021-22, playing the 90 minutes in front of the Osasuna on 12 December in Pamplona (2-2), already with Xavi Hernández in the bench culé. A fracture suffered in a training on 17 January forced him to go through the operating theatre, with which was three months ofdrop . The player returned to the trainings in the final stretch of the season, but did not contest neither a minute in the last five parties of the Barça in the season.

However, Samuel could sack of the club on the field in the friendly that the group blaugrana will contest the Wednesday in Sídney in front of a combined of stars of the To-League Australian. The central champion of the world with France arrived to Catalonia in the summer of 2016 pertinent of the Olympique Lyon in return of 25 million euros. Umtiti Was to title in his first two seasons, contesting 83 parties.

The ostracism of Umtiti in the last four years

However, from the 2018-19 was relegado to the bench because of his continuous physical problems. In the last four seasons, Samuel only added 50 presences like blaugrana, the majority of them in LaLigto. The Frenchman lost the confidence of Ernesto Valverde and never attained to convince neither to Ronald Koeman neither to Xavi Hernández, by which his exit was more than sung from does more than a year.