New trouble in the Ter Stegen case: Barça opens disciplinary proceedings against him after he refused to sign his medical report.

There's a new episode in the war between Marc-André ter Stegen and FC Barcelona . According to Mundodeportivo , the German footballer has refused to sign a consent form for the Catalan club to send the medical report on his injury to the LaLiga Medical Commission, thus preventing it from assessing its severity. The club's response, according to the aforementioned outlet, has been to open disciplinary proceedings against the goalkeeper.

Ter Stegen's refusal makes Barça's efforts to register several of its players even more difficult, including the two goalkeepers Hansi Flick is expected to count on this season, Joan García and Wojciech Szczesny.

If the German goalkeeper's recovery from injury is considered to take at least five months, Barça could register Joan García with 80% of his salary without violating salary fair play rules , a situation very similar to the one the club experienced last year with Dani Olmo and the injury of Andreas Christensen, whose recovery LaLiga estimated would be long-term.

Since the goalkeeper has not yet given his consent for the competition committee to have access to his medical report, the situation is at a standstill, and the club maintains that the player has a series of contractual obligations and rules to comply with , so failure to do so should have disciplinary and even legal consequences, if necessary.

This is a new mess in the Ter Stegen case, which broke out when the goalkeeper himself announced his decision to undergo surgery on social media and stated that he would have three months of recovery ahead of him , less than what LaLiga allows for using 80% of his salary to register other players.

On the other hand, Barcelona assumes that the goalkeeper could be recovering for four months and another one to be able to count on Hansi Flick, in addition to mentioning in its medical report that it was a "reoperation" , making it clear that he had relapsed from a previous injury for which he had already undergone surgery in 2023.