{"id":1848,"date":"2018-06-03T21:51:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T17:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2018-06-03T21:51:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T17:51:23","slug":"samuel-umtiti-agrees-five-year-contract-extension-with-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/06\/03\/samuel-umtiti-agrees-five-year-contract-extension-with-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Umtiti agrees five-year contract extension with Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have agreed a five-year contract extension with France international centre-half Samuel Umtiti, the club have announced.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old will sign the deal, which runs until the end of the 2022\/23 season, on Monday at the Nou Camp.<\/p>\n<p>Umtiti has been a success since\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/10499495\/barcelona-sign-lyon-defender-samuel-umtiti-on-five-year-deal\">joining from Lyon for \u00a321.2m (\u20ac25m) in 2016<\/a>, forming a formidable partnership with Gerard Pique at the heart of Barca&#8217;s defence.<\/p>\n<p>He is part of France&#8217;s 23-man squad for the World Cup in Russia and is expected to start alongside Real Madrid&#8217;s Raphael Varane at centre-half.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Football\/Article\/Samuel-umtiti-je-suis-vu-differemment\/905190\">Speaking to French newspaper L&#8217;Equipe last week<\/a>, Umtiti said: &#8220;It is clear that I want to renew my contract at Barcelona and I hope to be with the team next season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m at a club that allowed me to realise my dream of playing there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m still under contract at the moment. So for me to leave, either they throw me out the door or I decide to leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__misc-container\">&#8211;<\/div>\n<div>Skysports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have agreed a five-year contract extension with France international centre-half Samuel Umtiti, the club have announced. The 24-year-old will sign the deal, which runs until the end of the 2022\/23 season, on Monday at the Nou Camp. Umtiti has been a success since\u00a0joining from Lyon for \u00a321.2m (\u20ac25m) in 2016, forming a formidable partnership &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}