Posted December 11, 2021 at 7:30 am by AC
Little used at FC Barcelona in recent years, Philippe Coutinho and Samuel Umtiti are pushed towards the exit and after several failures, a radical solution could be taken.
They were often part of the major departures sections, during transfer sessions. However, Samuel Umtiti and Philippe Coutinho have never left FC Barcelona , or at least not definitely for the Brazilian. The situation is however critical and Barça sorely needs to lower its payroll and therefore sell, in order to be able to recruit. “We have to strengthen the first team, but there are high contracts and which we have inherited, which do not give us a salary margin,” said president Joan Laporta, in a video published on Friday. “We are looking for the formula to improve the team in this market”. Obviously, Umtiti and Coutinho find themselves at the top of the players to be sacrificed …
Barça no longer wants to hear from them
The problem is that FC Barcelona has failed several to sell or just find a club for Samuel Umtiti as for Philippe Coutinho. This winter , things could be different. According to information from SPORT, within Barça one would be thinking of a unilateral termination of the contracts of the two players, which end in June 2023. The daily even explains that the leaders would be ready to put pressure on Coutinho as on Umtiti, so that a solution is found.