The FC Barcelona has done official this Friday the first exit. The French center-back Samuel Umtiti, with a contract still until the 2025/26 season, definitively dissociates himself from the Blaugrana club after having his contract terminated, freeing up almost 20 million in salary mass: the defender was one of the players on the squad who had the file higher for the next course. Yes indeed, Barcelona does not receive any compensation in the form of a transfer, so Umtiti will be free to negotiate his transfer with any club. It must be remembered that his season at Italian Lecce has been more than satisfactory, to the point that he has recovered part of the prestige he threw overboard after the 2018 World Cup. The French central defender ends his career at Barcelona, with a final balance of 133 games and two goals.
This is the first exit that FC Barcelona has closed, but it will not be the last by any means, since it has to complete a minimum of six, as it advanced in the Viability Plan that it delivered to LaLiga. Thus, after the departure of Umtiti, those of Clément Lenglet, Sergiño Dest, Álex Collado, Nico González and Franck Kessié must be closed. The first four are, as in the case of Umtiti, players on loan from Barcelona, while the fifth, the Ivorian midfielder, is a necessary departure if the team is to be strengthened, since all the amounts that would be deposited are clean, since they do not have cost not one euro in the transfer.
Apart from these five folders that are still open, there are also three more that occupy and worry the club. Two especially -Ferran Torres and Ansu Fati-, above all due to the immobility when it comes to addressing a possible exitwhile the third, the Brazilian Gustavo Maia, will urgently seek a way out, although in this case hardly any wage bill will be released.
