Ter Stegen trains alone, Barça future in doubt

Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen has been grooming connected his ain since the club's instrumentality to preseason connected Sunday amid continued uncertainty implicit his future.

Barça's players underwent aesculapian tests connected Sunday earlier Hansi Flick held the archetypal squad league connected Monday, with the nine informing that Ter Stegen trained unsocial successful the gym.

The German planetary was again not progressive with the radical successful either of the 2 sessions connected Tuesday, the nine said.

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Barça alert to Asia adjacent week for preseason friendlies successful Japan and South Korea and a root told ESPN it is presently undecided whether Ter Stegen volition question with the squad.

Ter Stegen, 33, joined Barça successful 2014 and has been the club's outright No.1 since 2016, erstwhile Claudio Bravo was transferred to Manchester City.

However, helium has fallen down the pecking bid this summertime aft the signing of Joan García from Espanyol for €25 million.

Sources person told ESPN the nine person invited Ter Stegen to leave, but helium has truthful acold expressed a tendency to stay.

The nine anticipation helium could alteration his stance erstwhile it becomes wide helium won't play due to the fact that helium needs regular shot up of adjacent summer's World Cup, wherever helium hopes to beryllium Germany's No.1.

Barça's program is for García to beryllium backed up by Wojciech Szczęsny, who precocious penned a caller 2 twelvemonth declaration with the club.

Szczęsny came retired of status past summertime to motion for Barça erstwhile Ter Stegen suffered a superior genu wounded astatine the extremity of September.

Ter Stegen returned for the last weeks of the season, making 2 appearances, but Szczęsny kept his spot for the important games.

García and Szczęsny person some been progressive successful Barça's sessions this week, arsenic has Iñaki Peña.

Peña was antecedently No. 2 to Ter Stegen and initially took his spot successful the squad past play earlier being ousted by Szczęsny.

Sources person confirmed Peña is unfastened to a caller situation distant from Barça arsenic helium pursues regular football.