The armband is not guaranteed? Barcelona wants to deprive the position of captain of the special lion. If they don t leave in the summer, they will completely become a marginal person

On June 29, Fernando Poirot, deputy editor-in-chief of Spain's World Sports, revealed that some inside the Barcelona board of directors believe that even if Ter Stegen continues to stay at the Camp Nou, it is no longer a reasonable decision to let him be the captain. In terms of this group of members, the captain's candidate should be formulated by the head coach, just like Guardiola is doing at Manchester City now.

After the unbearable 2024/25 season, Manchester City coach Guardiola decided to appoint the team's new captain himself. And in the years before this, it was Manchester City's tradition to choose a captain. However, last season, Manchester City left the team midway with the first captain Kyle Walker, and De Bruyne, who took over the captain's armband from him, also said goodbye after the end of the season. This invisibly makes the player's mentality worse. To avoid this situation from happening again, Guardiola decided to appoint himself and chose B seats, Rubendias, Rodri and Haaland as the new captains of the team in the new season. Among them, B seat, who has played for 8 seasons at Etihad Stadium, became the team's first captain. Manchester City's new spirit in the Club World Cup is also directly related to Guardiola's decision.

And Barcelona and Manchester City are a bit similar. Current captain Ter Stegen's relationship with the club has dropped to freezing point. Last season, he asked to play in the Champions League after a serious injury, but Barcelona senior manager and head coach Frick rejected the proposal of Teliu and continued to trust the former Polish national goal Szczesny who joined the free agency halfway through. This move made the German goalkeeper feel like he was betrayed. In the following time, he began to alienate from the team, not only refused to go away with the team, train alone, but also refused to speak to fans as captain during the home championship celebration after the 37th round of La Liga, which made Barcelona club lose face.

Even so, the Lions are full of confidence in continuing to serve as goalkeeper in the new season. But Barcelona then activated a 25 million euro penalty, successfully signed last season's best goalkeeper Joan Garcia, and prepared a two-year contract extension for Czesni. As for Ter Stegen, Barcelona informed him that the new season is only the team's third goalkeeper. Not accepted? Then it's easy to leave without sending it.

Barcelona's approach made Ter Stegen even more angry. He had already acted like a fire and told Barcelona to pay his full salary for the next three seasons if they had to leave the team, otherwise they would continue to stay. Barcelona also made it clear that Ter Stegen's forced escort will not hinder Szczesni's contract renewal, nor will it prevent Joan Garcia from becoming the team's main goalkeeper in the new season. Nowadays, the Special Lion is likely to not even be able to keep the captain's armband, and this will completely make him a marginalist on the team.

In fact, Ter Stegen has a fatal weakness, which is the US, Canada and Mexico World Cup next summer. As early as May 2012, the Barcelona captain made his national team debut, but in the following 13 years, he only played 44 games for the German team. Neuer's firm suppression made him unable to see the day to stand out. It was not until August last year that Neuer announced his withdrawal from the German national team that the Lion finally became a German chariot. Next summer's World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico is his first time to play in the World Championship as the main goalkeeper of Germany. Of course, it may be the last time.

If Te Lions were sitting on the bench at Barcelona because of anger, causing them to lose the position of the German main goalkeeper, it would undoubtedly be a very stupid decision. He will regret it for life. Barcelona is precisely this point, so they will use various methods to beat the special lion, and even deprive the latter of the captain's armband to force him to compromise. Although Barcelona's methods are somewhat despicable, I have to say that they are still very useful.