Samuel Umtiti believes his France international team-mate Antoine Griezmann would be a great addition at Barcelona.
Griezmann is widely expected to leave Atletico Madrid this summer despite signing a bumper new deal 12 months ago.
The 27-year-old almost joined Manchester United at the end of last season but is now expected to sign for Barcelona in the coming months.
The Spanish champions will reportedly trigger Griezmann’s €100m release clause at the start of July, much to Atletico’s dismay.
Members of the Barcelona hierarchy have stopped mentioning Griezmann to the media in recent weeks in a bid to cool frosty relations with Atletico.
However, it hasn’t stopped some of Barcelona’s players talking up Griezmann’s potential arrival, with Umtiti the latest to contribute to the saga.
“He [Griezmann] is a fantastic player, we know his quality. In any group, he would be important. He could help us a lot,” AS quote Umtiti as saying.
With a brace in Wednesday's Europa League final taking his total for the tournament to 6 goals, and with a WhoScored rating of 7.91, @Atleti striker @AntoGriezmann is our player of the competition pic.twitter.com/0rjVF6KIMm
— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) May 17, 2018
After a slow start to the season, Griezmann has burst into life since the turn of the year, firing Atletico to Europa League glory in what could be his final game for the club.
In fact, Griezmann finished the Europa League as the highest WhoScored rated player in the competition (7.91 rating).
