{"id":101348,"date":"2025-07-29T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/101348\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T06:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:10:11","slug":"ter-stegen-breaks-silence-on-relationship-with-barcelona-ahead-of-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/101348\/","title":{"rendered":"Ter Stegen breaks silence on relationship with Barcelona ahead of surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona goalkeeper and captain Marc-Andre ter Stegen is flying to Bordeaux this afternoon, where he will undergo surgery at the Sports Clinic Bordeaux Merignac on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The operation is for the German international to address his lower back problems that have kept him from training since the start of pre-season and prohibited him from travelling to Asia with the rest of the squad. <\/p>\n<p>Upon his arrival at El Prat Airport, the Barcelona goalkeeper was approached by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport.es\/es\/noticias\/barca\/ter-stegen-rompe-silecio-relacion-120137085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SPORT<\/a> and was asked about his relationship with the club.<\/p>\n<p>Recent developments surrounding his injury and his refusal to leave the club have reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelonas-relationship-with-veteran-superstar-at-breaking-point-tension-at-an-all-time-high\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">created tension between the German international and the Blaugrana<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>So much so that there have been talks of the Catalans <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-consider-stripping-marc-andre-ter-stegen-off-captaincy-amid-rising-tension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">considering stripping him of the club captaincy<\/a> before the start of the new season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/rcd-espanyol-de-barcelona-v-fc-barcelona-la-liga-ea-sports-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"marc-andre ter stegen in training\" class=\"wp-image-172883\"  \/>Ter Stegen to undergo surgery on Tuesday. (Photo by Alex Caparros\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>However, Ter Stegen denied that there are any problems between him and Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe relationship with the club is good, always good, intact,\u201d<\/strong> said the veteran shot-stopper.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about his physical condition and the problem with his back, the veteran goalkeeper replied with a laugh: <\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIf you have to have surgery, I think there\u2019s something wrong, don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ter Stegen will undergo surgery to address his back issue tomorrow, following which the club are expected to release a statement regarding his recovery timeline.<\/p>\n<p>The German international insisted earlier \u2013 even before undergoing surgery \u2013 that he could be out for about three months. <\/p>\n<p>However, the medical staff at the club and other experts suggest a longer downtime of about four to five months. If that turns out to be the scenario, Barcelona can utilise his absence to register one of their new signings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona goalkeeper and captain Marc-Andre ter Stegen is flying to Bordeaux this afternoon, where he will undergo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":101349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1386,4444,5727,4445,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-101348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-barcelona-news","10":"tag-fc-barcelona","11":"tag-marc-andre-ter-stegen","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114935039631933735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}