Ter Stegen suspects intrigue – Nagelsmann switches on

Nagelsmann also switches on

Ter Stegen probably suspects intrigue – does Barça have a plan?

Germany’s number one should feel back on the Spanish champion. Now Julian Nagelsmann is also intervening.

What about the future of Marc-André Ter Stegen at FC Barcelona? In the past few days, the rumors about the German national goalkeeper have started driving: Although his contract is still running at the Spanish champion until 2028, the club is planning to get rid of the Steegen.

Specifically, in a report by the Spanish newspaper “Sport” on Sunday: Barça Wolle Ter Stegen offer to pay his salary for the coming year, provided he leaves the club and negotiates “with whom always”. In another report, the newspaper now wants to have learned that Ter Stegen has now fallen and coach Hansi Flick and attacked.

Accordingly, it believes that internal information that the keeper is supposed to lose his regular place in Barcelona should have been deliberately publicly reached. The goal: pushing to switch to a change. Because as several media unanimously report, Barça is about to commit Joan García, the current goalkeeper of city rival Espanyol. An agreement should already be available that García is intended as the new number one.

Ter Stegen, who moved to the Catalans in 2014 and has held the regular place there since then, had only recently returned to the field after a crack in the patella tendon. His recovery lasted seven months. In his absence, Wojciech Szczęsny came to Barcelona and convinced between the posts. In the fans, the status of Ter Stegens, which was increasingly eyed more critically, changed. Apparently now from the coaching team. Rumors about a tense relationship with trainer Flick have increased.

National coach Julian Nagelsmann also reacted with a lack of understanding to the approach of Barcelona with Ter Stegen. “Somehow I would like to want to get the national team due to the past of individual protagonists and their connection to him that he will get an information on how to proceed,” said Nagelsmann after the 0: 2 in the game for third place in Stuttgart against France. He also indirectly addressed coach Flick, Nagelsmann’s predecessor.

The situation around Ter Stegen and Barça was “super heavy” for him because he did not know “how much truthful” in the media reports that he can see, said the national coach in the press conference after the game. But he also spoke to the 33-year-old about the “very sensitive topic”.

“If you look at it completely soberly, he has a contract and is an outstanding good goalkeeper. Marc Allen showed that. That’s why he can go into the situation relatively relaxed,” said Nagelsmann. Nevertheless, it is human that it concerns Ter Stegen, “if you don’t get any information, how it goes on”.

It is not his job to say what others should and what should not, the national coach emphasized. In one thing, however, Nagelsmann is certain: “He needs not worrying about his sporting future, wherever she is.”