Samuel Umtiti will pass a test this Wednesday at the Accor Stadium in Sydney. The player will be able to check his performance and real physical condition in a match against the All Star team of the Australian league against which Barça will face to end the season.
The meeting will be a way to show if he is fully recovered from the injury to the fifth metatarsal of his right foot that forced him to undergo surgery in January. Since then he has not played again and his presence in the team this season is summed up the 90 minutes in El Sadar against Osasuna on December 12.
Therefore, Umtiti will play again five and a half months later. The Frenchman is one of the footballers that Xavi Hernández He announced that they are not part of his plans for the next season and the meeting will help him to shoot.
The player must negotiate a complex departure from Barça since before the injury he extended his contract until 2026. It was a way of lightening the wage bill and be able to register Ferran Torres in the winter market.