Footballer Marc-André ter Stegen and his girlfriend, Ona Sellarès, have announced they are expecting a baby. The couple, who confirmed their relationship in the summer of 2025, used Instagram to share the news: they posted a photo of them kissing and showing an ultrasound to the camera. The image is accompanied by the text "Full of love" and Coldplay's song Yellow.

Marc-André ter Stegen suffered a serious muscle injury in the league match of Girona on Saturday at Oviedo's ground. Pending further tests and a clearer diagnosis agreed upon by Girona and Barcelona, ​​initial examinations suggest the German goalkeeper could be sidelined for two months, and may even require further surgery. Girona has already issued a statement saying that "Marc-André ter Stegen has a left hamstring injury. The player will undergo further medical tests to finalize the diagnosis and establish a prognosis."

Just when they least expected it, Girona escaped defeat with an epic goal from Vitor Reis in stoppage time. Getafe had infuriated the Montilivi crowd, who were angry with the refereeing decisions, their opponents, and the world. Luckily, the center-back appeared, courageously finishing off a ball that extends Girona's unbeaten run into 2026, and Ter Stegen prevented a 1-2 scoreline in the final moments. Relegation remains a distant memory, four points away.

It was early 2009 when a seventeen-year-old striker appeared in the old Montilivi press room, demolished years before, accompanied by a translator. His name was Hiroshi Ibusuki, and he was a promising young player for Girona who went viral without the need for social media, which was still in its infancy. The club's official website received a flood of Japanese visitors who crashed the internet asking what on earth this club was, a club then experiencing its first season in the Second Division after fifty years.

When the first rumor came out that pointed to the possibility that Marc-André ter Stegen When he signed on loan to Girona until the end of the season, everyone laughed. "It's impossible," most people said. But what seemed impossible has happened, and the German goalkeeper will finish the season at Montilivi. Ter Stegen is now officially a Girona player and did not travel to Prague, where Barça needs to win this Wednesday (9 pm, Movistar) if they want to keep their hopes alive of reaching the Champions League top 8 and avoid a knockout round.

The loan of Marc-André ter Stegen in Girona Things are starting to simmer. The Girona club truly values the arrival of the German goalkeeper from Barça until the end of the season, but the deal, as it stands, has a long way to go. Ter Stegen needs to play if he wants to be in top form for next summer's World Cup, where he could be Germany's starting goalkeeper, something that has always been denied him due to Manuel Neuer's presence. He won't be the starter at Camp Nou, unless something unfortunate happens to Joan Garcia, signed to usher in an era. He could be the starter at Montilivi, which needs a reliable goalkeeper after four seasons of Paulo Gazzaniga's reign that seem to be coming to an end.

Marc-André ter Stegen will return to training with the group next week. As ARA has confirmed, the German goalkeeper's recovery plan involves starting the same training sessions as his teammates next Monday, December 1st. This Saturday, November 29th, will mark just four months since his surgery. The back surgery at the end of July was led by French doctor Amélie Léglise, the same doctor who treated him for the same lumbar problems in 2023. The medical report submitted to La Liga detailed that he would be out for four months, which is the time that has now passed. This prognosis allowed Barça to register Joan Garcia even though they didn't have enough salary cap space available: they took advantage of a significant portion of the space freed up by the Barça captain's registration. The goalkeeper from Sallent is registered for the entire season, sources at the Aristides Maillol offices insist. However, his registration will have to be finalized next summer.

While Joan Garcia begins to cause a sensation among the culerada based on saving stops and a daring and enviable footwork, Marc-André ter Stegen finally broadcasts Peace after the storm. He's had his worst summer since landing in Catalonia in 2014, and Barça's first captain is entertaining himself these days by hanging reels on Instagram where he shows off his skills as a barista. He also uses his public profile to broadcast how he is recovering from the operation he underwent at the beginning of August to correct the lower back pain that had been bothering him since the end of last season, when he wanted to push himself to return in the decisive stretch of the League and compete in the final four of the Nations League with Germany.

The new Barça is already on its way, keeping the flame of hope from last season alive, but it's doing so on peripheral stages. While awaiting the return to the promised land of Camp Nou, the Blaugrana team arrived at the Johan Cruyff stadium for another edition of the Joan Gamper Trophy, a strange one due to the small number of spectators, the setting, and an opponent who melted like a cube these hot days (5-0). Barça devoured Cesc's Como in 45 minutes, and everyone could see that Lamine Yamal wears the number 10. This team is loaded with reasons to dream, playing the way they play. And the new number 10 is having a blast, seducing with his play and that mischievous laugh.

Marc-André ter Stegen is no longer Barça's first captain. At least, temporarily. The club confirmed this in a statement, specifying that the measure is provisional "until the disciplinary proceedings" it has open are resolved. Ronald Araujo will thus assume the role of first captain. The decision was made by president Joan Laporta with sporting director Deco and coach Hansi Flick. It's a new chapter in the club's history. the war between Barça and Ter Stegen: The club wants to find a way out for him, but the German is entrenched in staying and is not making it easy for Joan Garcia, the goalkeeper that Barça signed this summer, to be registered. He understands that the impediments related to the fair play financial is not their business.

"We have doubts that this will end well, and from the outside we only see the tip of the iceberg." This reflection comes from the Barça locker room, where the effects of the jet lag after the endless journey back from Daegu (South Korea) to Barcelona (18 hours by bus and plane) with the stupor of the latest chapter in the war between the Barça club and the still captain of the first team, Marc-André ter Stegen. A case that will experience a new episode this Thursday, when the board will hand the German armband over to Hansi Flick.

In any case, we like to take sides. We like to decide who we support, but sometimes things are more complicated. Or simpler. In the case of Ter Stegen I see it this way. I can understand the German goalkeeper's position, and also Joan Laporta's. We can question the timing and the methods, but let's be honest... Are we really waiting for a football player, in an altruistic act, to give away money and go against his own interests? Who would do his company a favor? Nobody. And even less so when this board renewed your contract until 2028.

Marc-André ter Stegen is the last vestige of the template who won the Champions League in Berlin ten years ago. He is also one of the only three survivors of the contract renewals with deferrals that Josep Maria Bartomeu carried out in secret and treacherously before resigning in October 2020, behind the backs of the dressing room led by Leo Messi. Currently the first captain by seniority, he is the archeological figure of a team that collapsed between Anfield and Lisbon and began to rise with Xavi's La Liga, in which he was key between the sticks. At the top of Barça, legitimately, they believe that the time has come for him to say goodbye so they can look forward to a goalkeeper for the future: they have spoken about it in board meetings and in close circles with journalists. Officially, the message is that they do not want to force him to leave, but once Joan Garcia was signed There's no need to swallow the vegetables by making an airplane with your fork. pressing Ter Stegen is infinite and inelegant. Frenkie de Jong could beat him. give advice on how to approach this type of campaigns, also present on the unbearable social media. Every summer, someone is targeted to get him to jump ship, and the Dutchman, now on the verge of renewing—what a thing!—is an expert. Ter Stegen signed—already with Joan Laporta, two years ago—an extension until 2028. One small detail is not insignificant: he did so again with deferrals, Bartomeu-style. Therefore, colloquially speaking, the club must pay him a fortune, and he holds the upper hand. For now, he's already made it clear that he's convinced he'll stay at Barça. The conflict is already brewing and won't be easy to resolve, because the Blaugrana club also needs the German to leave to facilitate Joan Garcia's registration.

After two years in the shadow of Claudio Bravo, Marc-André ter Stegen He showed up at Barça's offices in Aristides Maillol's office with an offer from Manchester City under his arm. It was the summer of 2016, and the German surprised everyone with his determination to threaten a change of scenery just two seasons after his arrival. The reason for the ultimatum: he didn't want any more seasons alternating in goal with the Chilean, whom Luis Enrique Martínez, then Barça's manager, entrusted with every La Liga match. Forced to choose, the club opted for Ter Stegen, who at the time was 24 years old and one of the goalkeepers with the most promising future in Europe. Meanwhile, Bravo, nine years his senior, was the one who finally ended up at Pep Guardiola's first City team.

These days the hashtag #TerStegenOut has gone viral on social media. Hatred, anonymity and, what's worse, impunity have passed sentence on the sole survivor of Barcelona's last Champions League title (2015). Overnight, and while the noise surrounding the possible signing of Joan Garcia grows, it's not being organized. And too similar to the campaigns that Ernesto Valverde and Sergio Busquets suffered in their day.

Ter Stegen hugged Szczesny with a dazzling smile after the 4-0 against Borussia Dortmund. As if after a few weeks they couldn't become the two protagonists of Hansi Flick's latest happy headache, because football has the annoying peculiarity that only one person per team can touch the ball with their hands. If Ter Stegen is fit to compete again in May, the coach will have to make one of the most delicate decisions since arriving in Barcelona: continue to trust in a goalkeeper who retired in the summer, but with whom Barça has yet to lose thanks to his solid performances, or trust the Barça first-choice goalkeeper of the last decade. With two titles at stake, the Champions League and La Liga (the Copa del Rey final will be played on April 26).

Barça goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen issued a very painful statement with the presenters of the program Don't let him out of here, because they spread a – painful – rumour about their divorce.