In recent months, Barcelona has been desperate to extend the agreement with the French bek, whose contract spells out a € 60 million compensation.

The Catalans intended to increase the size of the player's option of redemption, having connected it with a longer contract. Nevertheless, the financial demands of Umtiti itself led the negotiations to a dead end.

According to the Spanish edition of Sport, after the devastating defeat of Roma in the Champions League (0: 3), the "blue-pomegranate" doubted the need to extend Samuel and decided to suspend negotiations with the player.

According to the source, Barcelona is pondering over whether to sell the player to Manchester United, who shows serious interest to Umtiti and is ready to activate the redemption clause in his contract.

This season on the account of Samuel 22 matches in La Liga, in which he was not noted for effective actions.