The central defender would like to join a Lyon that is looking for a central defender in the market
The French club has picked up Tolisso and Lazazette, but they do not see the arrival of the Blaugrana clearly
Days go by and Samuel Umtiti still can’t find a team despite the fact that Barça is helping him and is willing to collaborate by giving him the letter of freedom and giving him part of the payment. The French central defender has received some interest from Italian and Turkish football, as has Olympiakos, but for now nothing has been defined. And, meanwhile, the footballer is trying to join Olympique de Lyon. He is looking for a return to the club that made him successful, convinced that it is the ideal ecosystem to recover him for football. Olympique de Lyon needs a marker defense, but for now they have not decided to go for Umtiti.
The transfer policy of Olympique de Lyon has focused this summer on recovering players who exploded at their club and who will end their career at the highest level where they began. The two great returns have been those of Tolisso, who arrived free from Bayern Munich and Lacazette, also at zero cost from Arsenal. The two are great friends of Umtiti and would welcome him with open arms, but in the French club there are serious doubts about the physical condition of the center-back.
Umtiti would give all kinds of facilities to return to Lyon and is very aware of everything that happens in the entity. And he knows that the club is looking for a central defender on the market, but that they haven’t signed anything yet. At Barça they are beginning to despair because they see his departure as complicated, although they will hold out until the last day of the contract because the relationship with the Frenchman and his environment is good and they know that he is doing everything possible to leave.
