The situation between Barcelona and Marc-Andre ter Stegen seems to have reached the boiling point in recent days, whereby the club has decided to start the disciplinary procedure against their captain after his refusal for his medical report to be sent to La Liga as a way for his replacement Joan Garcia to be registered.
In the event that the injury of a player is longer than four months, a club can use 80% of that player's salary to register a replacement. Barcelona believes that Ter Stegen falls into this category, while the man himself publicly claimed that he would only miss for three.
As a result, the tensions between the two parties are very tense and the future of Ter Stegen in Catalonia is now incredibly gloomy. But according to Andreas Rettig, sports director of the German football federation (DFB), this should not be the case, according to MD.
“In dealing with him I would like to take the benefits and the importance that Marc-André had, not only with us, but also in Barcelona. But I am a bit biased. He is a player of our national team. That is why I may not be the right person to evaluate the objectively.”
Ter Stegen was replaced as Barcelona number one before the registration situation came about, with Garcia from Espanyol brought in. The plan was that the 33-year-old third-choice was, also behind Wojciech Szczesny, and if this is the case when he returns from an injury in November/December, he will almost certainly not be the starting goalkeeper of Germany for the World Cup of the following summer.