Samuel Umtiti keeps on being one of the pending folders of the operation gone out of the FC Barcelona. The sportive direction culé look for close the course of the player before the next 1 September, when it finishes the market of signings of summer.
The club blaugrana will not free mass salarial with the cession of the central French to the US Lecce of the Series To, but is negotiating the economic compensations that will receive by each party that contest in the maximum category of the Italian football. The operation, as it explained the president of the Lecce, Saverio Sticchi Damiani, still is not closed. There are details still pending for closing between the clubs and afterwards the defender has to surpass the medical proofs.
The Frenchman needs to show that it is prepared physically to go back to compete to the maximum level. In case that it do it, will be able to have a big opportunity of continuity to try show that it can keep on being a central of first division. To his 28 years Umtiti is convinced that it still has football to give and only asks a possibility to be headline.
The defender has the permission of the Barça not to train to the orders of Xavi Hernández and displace this Tuesday or Wednesday to Lecce to close his cession. The negotiations go by good way, as it signals 'Sport', and the footballer will fly in the next hours to Italy to finalise the operation.
Challenge complicated
The French will follow playing in the football of elite, but inside a project that will look for the permanence all the season. The Lecce is recently risen to the Series To and needs to reinforce his staff the maximum possible after beginning the season with two defeats, in front of Inter and Sassuoo. Umtiti Could debut the next 28 August receiving to the Empoli from the 20:45 hours.