Marc-André Ter Stegen fell out of favor at FC Barcelona. Now information about a new serious injury is now circulating.
If Marc-André Ter Stegen needed a proof that his time at FC Barcelona had expired, he received him on Thursday: In the club-related newspaper “Mundo Deportivo” he was able to read how coach Hansi Flick at the training area during an informal chat on the future would know that his focus was on the future. On Joan García, the new addition to the local rival Espanyol for 25 million euros.
Nagelsmann’s demand for Flick
It is no longer on the Stegen: abrupt and almost brutal, it can work that the German national goalkeeper is considered excess after eleven years in the club. Ter Stegen, last season even captain of the Catalans, could hardly believe that at the beginning.
Hansi Flick in dialogue with Marc-André Ter Stegen
When the Volte began to appear during the National League finals, he explained that he continued to see himself in Barcelona and calmly opposite any competitive struggles. Back then, national coach Julian Nagelsmann called for “Info to Marc” from Flick.
Shortly before the start of training this week, Ter Stegen has now received the desired information personally. After matching media reports, Flick not only explained his preference for García-but also that he is planning as deputy for his second Barça season with Wojciech Szcęzsny. Competition? This week, Ter Stegen trained separately from the rest of the team in the weight room.
The back again?
A reaction to his degradation, everyone thought – until later on Thursday the message suddenly appeared, the Steegen was seriously injured on the back. According to the “Jijantes” portal, which is usually well informed, and the doctors would even consider an operation.
At the end of 2023, an intervention was carried out on the intervertebral disc at Ter Stegen, at that time it was around two months. Now the reports speak of a possible forced break to the end of the year. Next week the final decision on the further procedure should be made, the reports say. There was no official statement from the club or player side by the afternoon.
An injury is also at the beginning of Ter Stegen and Barça. He tore the patella tendon in the right knee last autumn. The season seemed over for him, but Ter Stegen worked with his well -known ambition on the comeback and declared himself ready for action in April. For years he had been one of the top performers, often he had saved a crisis team alone. In his view, he was allowed to see the Barça goal as an eternal regular area.
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An interview and other affronts
But apparently he had overestimated his position. In parallel to the re-entry into training, he had a long chat in a “picture” podcast-atypical for an injured player, especially as the captain of a club whose professionals did not give any individual interviews. In the talk, it was not only close to gossip and gossip about his time in the club. Despite the lack of game practice, ter Stegen also pushing his soon return – and Flick suddenly had an unpleasant goalkeeper debate on the neck. Szcęzsny had just consolidated with strong performance.
The club later reported on other affronts. Due to the decision for Szcęzsny, Ter Stegen refused to travel to the Champions League semi-final secondary with Inter Milan. At the master celebration after the penultimate game against Villarreal, the captain is said to have boycotted the intended greeting to the audience for low operating times. In fact, the party seemed strange half -cooking, and the irritation at Flick and President Joan Laporta were to be grasped. Ter Stegen and his camp have not commented on the allegations.
Wojciech Szczesny (left) represented Marc-André Ter Stegen in the goal of FC Barcelona last season
Barça relies on the younger and cheaper
In Spain, Barça’s approach is perceived as hard, but not illogical. Ter Stegen’s injuries have been piling up in recent years, and he alone earns significantly more salary than the nine -year -old Joan García with Szcęzsny. In view of his billions of bills, Barça has little scope for romance.
In themselves, the observers now expect a complex poker game. Ter Stegen is contractually bound to the club for three years, who wants to get it from the content list and also seemed ready to let him go free of charge and pay a severance payment. So far, however, only an interest from Galatasaray Istanbul was considered to be reasonably offset. If the Stegen would have to be operated on, the topic would probably be postponed to the next winter.
The problem for Julian Nagelsmann would certainly not be less. The World Cup qualification begins with the game in Slovakia on September 4. At the moment, Ter Stegen’s future in the DFB goal is also more uncertain than ever.