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| Samuel Umtiti in action during the FC Barcelona training session at Camp Nou Stadium on January 3, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. |
The agent of
Barcelona's Samuel Umtiti has denied that the centre-back has failed a medical
with Rennes.
The France World Cup
winner has largely had his Camp Nou career derailed by injuries and Barca have
been keen to sell him in the last few transfer windows.
Reports in Spain
initially stated that Umtiti was on the verge of returning to his homeland with
Rennes, but Mundo Deportivo claimed that he had failed a medical with
the Ligue 1 side.
However, Umtiti's
agent, Arturo Canales, contacted the Catalan outlet to inform them that this
story was false.
Umtiti later wrote in a social media post: "When the lie takes the elevator, the truth takes the stairs, it takes longer, but it always ends up arriving."
Mundo Deportivo add
that Barcelona want to publicly clarify the situation regarding Umtiti and have
sided with his version of events, though it is now unclear as to why the
transfer collapsed.
Barcelona have already
signed another centre-back this window in the form of Andreas Christensen,
and Footballflame understands they remain in talks with Sevilla over Jules
Kounde too.
