The Catalan press already gives practically by closed the signing of Samuel Umtiti of face to the next season 2016-17 course to the FC Barcelona. In fact, in the last hours the newspaper "Sport" ensures even that already there would be date for the medical review of the central youngster French of the Olympique of Lyon with the Catalan entity.
This would produce just after the Eurocopa of France 2016, roughly during the first week of the month of July. Of this way, the player would travel to Barcelona after the tournament, would sign his new agreement with the club and like this the FC Barcelona could square well the accounts, planting the signing of Umtiti already in this next exercise so that it do not cause losses in the balance.
Anyway, "Sport" does echo of the informations of internal sources of the FC Barcelona that ensure that the signing still is not closed to the one hundred byone hundred , although the negotiations would be to these heights already very advanced between the two parts. The true is that, of doors outside, the president of the Olympique of Lyon, Jean-Michel Classrooms, always has ensured not having offers in firm of the Barça by Samuel Umtiti, by what the information of the Catalan press contrasts with his words.
Possibly his statements were due to a manoeuvre of distraction, with the aim to keep the agreement in the highest secret until it do official and the player, already without having to contest the Eurocopa, can concentrate in his immediate future. To fault to draft the definite agreements, foresees that the signing of Umtiti do not arrive to the 30 million euros.
The player never has hid the predilection that feels to the FC Barcelona, although leaving clear whenever has valid agreement with the Olympique of Lyon. In one of the last interviews that has conceded, besides, ensured that it knows to speak a bit of Spanish.