Overview
- On August 8, Marc-André ter Stegen signed the club’s authorization for Barcelona’s medical department to submit his post-surgery report to La Liga.
- Barcelona subsequently closed the disciplinary procedure initiated days earlier, assigned Ter Stegen a squad number and restored him as team captain.
- La Liga will now assess whether his expected absence from a recent back operation exceeds four months, a threshold that would let Barcelona allocate 80 percent of his salary toward registering new players.
- The club’s need to certify his downtime has delayed the registration of new goalkeepers Joan García and Wojciech Szczesny under strict wage limits.
- Ter Stegen’s contract runs through 2028 and he received public backing from teammates as tensions rose over medical privacy and financial fair play rules.