The signing of Samuel Umtiti by the FC Barcelona does not owe only and exclusively to the sportive merits showed in the Olympique of Lyon in the last five seasons. The Barcelona group made an important selection and court for cerciorarse that the signing of the defender Frenchman was the suitable for the entity blaugrana.
According to desvela this Thursday "MD", Umtiti was controlled so much inside as out of the terrains of game. The club wanted to know at first hand his forma to be, his behaviour with other teams, his leadership in the changing room and if it would attain to fit in a team like the Barça, where the leaders are clear and it is necessary to be one more. And seem to be that yes.
These reports collected knowing information with other mates, with the own French club and the family of the player. To Can Barça had arrived the knowledge of a strong character by part of the player, that would have tendency to frustrate in determinate occasions. Something that already does years controls and that only was fruit of his immaturity when it gave the jump to the first team.
Those were the only doubts of Robert Fernández and his boys, as on the green already had seen it in crowd of occasions and had remained prendados of his quality and form to act. His powerful fitness, his skill to go out with the balloon played from backwards, his fortress in the aerial game and his age (22 years) did him in the central perfect for suplir to Marc Bartra and even to Thomas Vermaelen, that could leave the club very soon.