Barcelona star Marc-Andre ter Stegen will be confronted in the coming weeks with a crunch call for his future for both club and country.
The Germany International has returned this month in sharp focus after a decision to undergo surgery with a persistent back injury.
Ter Stegen announced that he announced the update and stated in the process that he will be out of operation for three months. Barcelona officials made that step angry, who hope that the German international will be at least four, because it would enable Joan Garcia to register at La Liga.
Barcelona activated a similar rule last season after an earlier injury with Wojciech Szczesny signed as emergency aid.
This time around Barcelona's officials, however, believe that Ter Stegen deliberately set for three months as its return time line, so that the club cannot use 80% of its salary to register a replacement, and it has led to their relationship deteriorating further.
The arrival of Garcia and an overall cooling of the relationships between Ter Stegen and the club seems to have put him on the exit slope this summer.
Ter Stegen can also be stripped of his position as a club captain, and according to Diario Sport a decision about this will be made just before the start of the Liga season 2025/26.
However, a current row at club level is only one characteristic of the controversy, because an absence of three months will see him miss the majority of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign in Germany.
Ter Stegen was finally founded as no. 1 for Germany, after the international retirement of Manuel Neuer, where Julian Nagelsmann supported him to perform next summer.
Despite his guarantees to stay the first choice for Germany, Nagelsmann will not return him to Barcelona in November, if Ter Stegen has no role in Barcelona.
Reports from the German Outlet Bild claim that Ter Stegen 'Barcelona' must leave for the summer transfer window to prevent his World Cup dream from being shot.