The scenario Barça wants to avoid with Ter Stegen

BarcelonaIf no operations are accelerated in the coming days, Hansi Flick will begin his second preseason as Barça's head coach with four goalkeepers on the roster. The German coach and his specific trainers, José Ramón de la Fuente and Toni Tapalović, will work starting next week with captain Marc-André ter Stegen, the eternal substitute Iñaki Peña, the newcomer Joan Garcia, and the recently renewed Wojciech Szczęsny. Only the latter two are included in the plans of the sporting directorate headed by Anderson Luís de Souza, Deco. However, The harsh reality of League registrations It represents the paradox that only the first two would be able to get playing time if the competition were to start tomorrow. There is work to be done in the offices before mid-August so that the coaches' intentions can be translated into consolidated measures for the squad.

The latest major development in the Barça goalkeeping is the contract extension of Szczęsny, who arrived last autumn as a patch and has earned the club's trust to sign until June 2027, when he will be 37 years old. If a two-year agreement has been announced, it is because it is in their interest to spread out the salary for the benefit of calculating the fair play financial, but in reality the second exercise is linked to the performances exhibited during the first, according to the report Sports World. Since the clause is new, he must re-register with La Liga, which is complicated by the 1:1 rule, which allows for normal market operations. That's why Szczęsny still doesn't appear on Barça's roster on the club's website. Nor does Joan Garcia, who is destined to make his mark in goal at the new Camp Nou after of having broken the hearts of a generation of Espanyol fans. The Sallent native, by the way, is already training at the Barça facilities.

When the club regains the 1:1 tie, a step that some Barça sources define as "imminent," it will be easier to regularize the situation of the goalkeeping duo that was planned from the offices of the Joan Gamper Sports City. In this case, exit operations such as Ansu Fati's move to Monaco – now official – or Pablo Torre at Mallorca –on track– will count towards the registration of Szczęsny and Joan Garcia. Until the accounts are normalized, and considering that Ter Stegen is not listening to any offer at the moment, there is a risk that not enough space will be generated to reach the official debut of the course with the goal. To understand that Ter Stegen must leave, they would lose ground if the German, due to lack of salary margin, had to play the first few days of the League.

What is by no means anticipated in the Sant Joan Despí offices is the captain's removal from the team dynamics. After exhausting a couple's vacation that recently took him to Menorca, he will board a plane for the Asian tour between July 24 and August 4, and it will be Flick who decides whether he will participate in the matches against Vissel Kobe in Japan and Seoul and Daegu in South Korea. Meanwhile, the club's financial department will work in Barcelona to confirm the return to the 1:1 rule, which depends on the auditor's approval of the sale of part of the seats. VIP of a Camp Nou that, if it reopens its doors for the Gamper match on August 10, It will do so under precarious conditions and with a very limited capacity. With Athletic's supervisory yoke eased after of the No by Nico Williams, Barça has plenty of time – five weeks – to settle the score in the eyes of the League and avoid the kind of slippage seen in recent summers. listen to offers for players who resist for a change of scenery, like Ronald Araujo or Fermín López. All of this in parallel in search of a proven winger like Luis Díaz or Marcus Rashford.

The hottest thing is also in the kitchen sink with Iñaki Peña, more receptive than Ter Stegen when it comes to imagining a future away from Barça. The Alicante native didn't convince Flick as an alternative to the German and has understood that he must consider offers to leave the club this summer despite having a valid contract. If he leaves on a transfer, it will be for an affordable fee. And if he only finds a loan, he would first sign a renewal so that Barça would have something to fight for in case his value increases elsewhere.