Ter Stegen and Barcelona in the clinch
Where should that lead?
05.08.2025 – 4:51 p.m.Reading time: 4 min.
Marc-André Ter Stegen and FC Barcelona: What was once a love affair is degraded into a mud fight.
It was almost eight years ago that the Spanish newspaper “Marca” Marc-André ter Stegen celebrated as “Messi with gloves”. The combination of great parades and precise passports of the German goalkeeper delighted fans and media. Team colleague Andrés Iniesta saw the “scale of the coming years” for the goalkeeper game in Ter Stegen later. The German national keeper was a celebrated hero.
In August 2025, Ter Stegen was more of an enemy image. The “Marca” writes of an “open war” between German and FC Barcelona. The statue in the minds of many supporters of the Catalans has got cracks.
It all started on September 22, 2024. Ter Stegen injured himself in the Liga Barcelona at FC Villarreal on the right knee. A week later it was clear: Ter Stegen tore the patella tendon, fails for months. Barcelona reacted, wojciech Szczęsny got out of the football pension in early October. The Pole signed a one -year contract and became the new number one in Barcelona.
Szczęsny convinced directly, drew attention to himself with great parades. The first fans mocked on the net about Ter Stegen, performed mistakes from the German goalkeeper into video. The tenor: Szczęsny is our savior, the Stegen was bad anyway. The many successes and great parades of the DFB keeper in the Catalan jersey: forget.
In the end of the season, Barça wanted to hire a new goalkeeper. While Ter Stegen firmly expected to take its place as number one again at the new season, his club planned differently. The only 24 -year -old Joan García signed in Barcelona in mid -June after there had been rumors about the Spaniard for weeks. National coach Julian Nagelsmann said at a press conference at the beginning of June at the beginning of June: “Due to the past of the protagonists, I would like (ter Stegen, note, editor) to receive an information.
According to Spanish media reports, this info followed a month later. Barça coach Hansi Flick is said to have told the 33-year-old in a personal conversation that he was only number three in the Barcelona goal-behind Joan García and Wojciech Szczęsny, who had extended his contract again. A clear indication that Ter Stegen no longer plays a role in the plans of the club. The problem: his contract in Barcelona runs until 2028. The club is said to have thought about paying the salary of a whole year immediately if it dissolves the contract. Such a resolution has not yet occurred.