{"id":203347,"date":"2025-06-21T20:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203347\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T20:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:07:09","slug":"doubts-creeping-in-at-barcelona-about-captains-long-term-fitness-players-physical-condition-raise-alarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203347\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubts creeping in at Barcelona about captain’s long-term fitness; player’s physical condition raise alarms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc-Andre ter Stegen\u2019s future has become a hot topic at Barcelona this summer, as the club look to make new signing Joan Garcia their number one goalkeeper next season.<\/p>\n

Barcelona, therefore, are actively looking for suitors for ter Stegen, knowing his presence could be more of a liability at the club, both from a sporting and an economic perspective.<\/p>\n

Ter Stegen, for his part, is determined to continue at Barcelona<\/a> and is furious at the club for trying to force him out of Camp Nou. However, the German is not being helped by his injury condition.<\/p>\n

Ter Stegen\u2019s injury raises alarm bells<\/p>\n

According to Catalunya Radio<\/a>, serious doubts have emerged within Barcelona regarding Ter Stegen\u2019s long-term fitness. <\/p>\n

The club are particularly concerned about his knee, the same one he injured back in 2018.<\/p>\n

At the time, Ter Stegen spent over a year and a half playing through chronic pain before eventually undergoing arthroscopic surgery. <\/p>\n

\"\"Ter Stegen\u2019s future is the real talking point at Barcelona (Photo by Alex Grimm\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The injury seems to have reappeared, and this time, the situation may be even more delicate. The club, therefore, do not believe the German is ready for full-intensity competition. <\/p>\n

While there\u2019s hope he can regain full fitness, it would take time and, more crucially, a consistent run of minutes, something that Barcelona are currently unable to guarantee.<\/p>\n

As mentioned earlier, Bar\u00e7a have identified Joan Garcia as their main-choice goalkeeper and keeping that in mind, the club are not in a position to offer him anything more than a second-fiddle role.<\/p>\n

But with ter Stegen also looking to remain Germany\u2019s number one for the FIFA World Cup 2026, that won\u2019t be an option for Barcelona either.<\/p>\n

A move away from Camp Nou, therefore, could be the most logical decision for the former Gladbach shot-stopper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc-Andre ter Stegen\u2019s future has become a hot topic at Barcelona this summer, as the club look to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4322],"tags":[199,11680,1630,105,81963,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-203347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-barcelona-news","10":"tag-fitness","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-marc-andre-ter-stegen","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114723162936903739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}