Barça and LaLiga, close to a clash over Ter Stegen: Is a conflict coming?

What a busy Tuesday it is around FC Barcelona. The Azulgrana team, recently arrived in Barcelona after completing the 2025 preseason tour of Asia, must now face a totally unexpected issue: Marc-André ter Stegen's refusal to sign the consent that would allow the Catalan team to send LaLiga the official medical report on his injury.

From within the Azulgrana entity, beyond trying to follow the pertinent procedures and convincing the German to sign the document certifying his absence, they would also be exploring legal alternatives. The objective? To be able to send the report to the Medical Commission of LaLiga and thus activate article 77 of the Rules for the Preparation of Budgets of Clubs/SADs, which allows the club to use 80% of the injured player's salary to undertake registrations, such as that of Joan García.

Barcelona, determined to act despite Ter Stegen's rejection

As reported by the newspaper Mundo Deportivo, within the entity they consider that, by refusing to submit the medical report, Ter Stegen would be harming the team and his teammates. However, the board is confident that there are solid legal grounds to end up sending the document by other means.

The goalkeeper would have refused to sign the report based on the data protection law, but Barcelona argues that he himself publicly disclosed part of his clinical history. In the statement announcing his surgery, the player himself announced that he would be out for three months, while the Catalan entity, in its official version, limited itself to reporting on a reintervention, without specifying deadlines.

LaLiga would demand Ter Stegen's consent and block Barcelona

Despite the fact that the institution is considering legal formulas to send the document without the signature of the German '1', the internal suspicion is that his refusal does not respond so much to issues of medical privacy. The opposition of MATS would be due to an attempt to hinder sports and economic planning.

As reported by SPORT, despite all the arguments put forward by Barcelona, the reality is that LaLiga expressly requires the player's consent to receive and validate the medical report. In this way, the alternative route that intended to send a technical report with clinical details is deactivated, arguing that it was the player himself who publicly revealed his estimated time off.

Without the German's signature, the case is completely blocked. Even so, the culé team maintains its position and prepares to defend its criteria in the face of a possible conflict with the employers.