Barcelona introduced Friday that they’d reinstated Marc-André ter Stegen as membership captain after the goalkeeper agreed to authorise his medical report being despatched to LaLiga.
Barcelona stated Thursday they’d briefly stripped Ter Stegen of the captaincy after ESPN reported that the Germany worldwide, who lately underwent again surgical procedure, refused to signal a consent type for his medical knowledge to be shared with LaLiga, with Barça contemplating taking authorized motion in response.
However the two events have now resolved the dispute, Barcelona stated.
“The Membership pronounces that the participant Marc-André ter Stegen has signed the authorisation crucial for the Membership to ship La Liga the medical report regarding his surgical procedure,” the LaLiga champions stated in a assertion.
“The disciplinary case has been closed and the participant is captain of the primary workforce as soon as once more with fast impact.”
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The announcement got here simply hours after Ter Stegen launched his personal assertion saying that he was “absolutely prepared to collaborate with the Membership’s administration to resolve this matter and to supply the requested authorisation.”
Barça may have at the least 50% of the participant’s wage freed up for registration functions beneath LaLiga’s harm provision, a rule that applies if a participant is sidelined for at the least 4 months. Whereas Barcelona consider Ter Stegen will probably be out for at the least 4 months, the goalkeeper stated in an announcement that he anticipated to be again in motion in simply three months.
If Ter Stegen’s restoration time is greater than 4 months, Barça may launch him from his contract and register different gamers equivalent to Marcus Rashford.
“In current weeks, many issues have been stated about me – a few of them fully unfounded. Due to this fact, I really feel it’s crucial to specific my model of occasions respectfully, but clearly,” he wrote.
“I might additionally prefer to make clear that the entire membership’s signings and contract renewals have been accomplished previous to my surgical procedure. Due to this fact, at no level may I take into account that my unlucky circumstances with the brand new surgical procedure I needed to endure could be crucial for the registration of different colleagues whom I tremendously respect and stay up for share locker room with for a lot of seasons.”
Barça signed Joan García from Espanyol to be their No. 1 goalkeeper and likewise determined to resume the contract of veteran Wojciech Szczesny.
Ter Stegen’s determination to endure surgical procedure was a serious setback for Barcelona as ESPN had reported that the Catalan membership had supposed to let him depart the membership this summer time.
However he insisted that the choice to endure surgical procedure “was absolutely accredited by the membership” and that the three months’ restoration time he introduced was “communicated to me by most reputed specialists and at all times in coordination with the membership.”
He added: “My dedication to those colours stays absolute.”
Barcelona have but to register 5 gamers with eight days to go earlier than they start their LaLiga title defence in opposition to Mallorca.
Data from ESPN’s Moises Llorens and Adriana Garcia was used on this report.
