Something is happening with Ter Stegen

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.

Beyond this unfortunate trend, something is happening with the Mönchengladbach goalkeeper. At Barça, the end of the season is a time of running around the offices to balance the numbers and pay the bulk of the players' salaries—a necessity, the latter, that normally requires the signing of credit policies. With no official matches on the horizon, it's also time to plan for the future and heed the messages filtering out of some offices. At this time of year, when news is scarcer than ever, it's important to pay more attention than ever to the agenda set by both the club itself and certain players' representatives through their trusted channels. And, in this sense, it doesn't seem like Barça officials are very happy with Ter Stegen.

For a few days now, Barça has been implicitly blessing the reports pointing to the desired signing of Joan Garcia. The Barça financial situation has made him a dispensable player. Although this year hasn't been directly responsible for any sporting disappointment (basically because he's been injured), it feels as though the German has lost credibility in the eyes of the project that Hansi Flick must lead on the pitch. Whatever Joan Garcia decides, and with Wojciech Szczesny willing to do another year, it seems clear that Laporta's Barça has aligned itself with the X network. More subtly, but with the same intention, the transfer market and Ter Stegen's chair have begun.