{"id":137444,"date":"2016-06-04T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weisetech.dev\/fc-barcelona-noticias\/en\/the-fc-barcelona-ties-the-signing-of-the-central-samuel-umtiti_181329_102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:33:05","slug":"the-fc-barcelona-ties-the-signing-of-the-central-samuel-umtiti_181329_102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/transfers\/the-fc-barcelona-ties-the-signing-of-the-central-samuel-umtiti_181329_102.html","title":{"rendered":"The FC Barcelona ties the signing of the central Samuel Umtiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

The player of the Olympique of Lyon Samuel Umtiti will be player of the FC Barcelona in the weeks to come, as it informs this Saturday the Catalan press. The young Cameroonian defender of 22 years arrives to occupy the gap left by Marc Bartra<\/h2> \r\n
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Robert Fern\u00e1ndez and the technical office of the FC Barcelona<\/strong> have moved fast for paliar the drop that leaves in the team the exit of Marc Bartra<\/strong>.<\/a> Thus they have chosen to the central of the Olympique of Lyon Samuel Umtiti<\/strong> like reinforcement in front of the drop of the canterano. Like this it reveals it this Saturday the newspaper “MD”, that confirms that the Barcelona entity already would have tied to the defender for the next season.<\/strong><\/p>

Samue Umtiti is 22 years old of age, is Cameroonian and carries four seasons being the central headline of the Olympique of Lyon<\/strong>, club that already has done the idea that it will not have the footballer of face to the next season. The figures of the operation still have not revealed although the player is priced in 20 million euros.

The idea of the Bar\u00e7a is that firm by five seasons. The player has been followed during all the past 2015-2016 by the team of “scouting” Barcelona. In several occasions could see so much to Robert as to his helping Urbano in different parties of Tie it 1 seeing in direct to the Lyon.

The arrival answers to the request of Luis Enrique that, in case that it had gone out of the club these went replaced almost immediately, as like this it has been. The defender in question is a defence of guarantees and will arrive to put them the difficult things so much to Gerard Hammered as to Javier Mascherano<\/strong> in the titularity. His signing does not close the door to the arrival of another defender contrasted of the list that handles the club<\/a>.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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