{"id":17177,"date":"2026-01-16T21:16:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=17177"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:16:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:16:56","slug":"barcas-ter-stegen-close-to-joining-girona-on-loan-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=17177","title":{"rendered":"Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s Ter Stegen close to joining Girona on loan &#8211; sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>Sam Marsden<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Moises Llorens<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"timestamp \">Jan 16, 2026, 08:53 AM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"19ffd1a2-11dd-8484-a4d6-1228473ca337\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=9812\">Girona<\/a> are closing in on the signing of <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"58f7c4a9-c991-4ed4-fe5c-1f833cba75b8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=83\">Barcelona<\/a> goalkeeper <a data-player-guid=\"82c738d7-e78c-30d5-9d87-ff758417f2bd\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/140740\/marc-andre-ter-stegen\">Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen<\/a> on loan until the end of the season, sources told ESPN on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ter Stegen, 33, has been replaced as Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s No. 1 by <a data-player-guid=\"8a56e426-8050-a1d9-5af9-73d77648d188\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/297362\/joan-garcia\">Joan Garc\u00eda<\/a> and is keen to play regular football to guarantee his place in <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"de751eda-c32e-4714-1774-ff1ead8ca19b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=481\">Germany<\/a>&#8216;s squad at the World Cup this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The two clubs are still ironing out the final terms of the loan agreement and the breakdown of who pays what percentage of Ter Stegen&#8217;s salary &#8212; but the player has now given the green light to the move to fellow <a data-league-guid=\"cf7b0c51-7c48-3e9a-8abb-0c01b1a973a0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ESP.1\">LaLiga<\/a> side <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"19ffd1a2-11dd-8484-a4d6-1228473ca337\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=9812\">Girona<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/47629949\/arbeloa-asks-madrid-fans-backing-mbappe-fit-levante\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Arbeloa asks Real Madrid fans for backing vs. Levante<br \/>&#8211;<\/strong><\/a> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/47603027\/joao-cancelo-center-back-flick-wanted-the-fullback-barcelona-need\" target=\"_blank\">Cancelo may not be the signing Flick wanted, but could be what Barcelona need<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sources say the fact that Ter Stegen, who started in the previous round against Guadalajara, was left on the bench for Thursday&#8217;s <a data-league-guid=\"50d361ea-f945-3d56-9d20-63497bd2cac2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ESP.COPA_DEL_REY\">Copa del Rey<\/a> win at Racing Santander proved key to his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Girona, which is just 100 km. (62 miles) north of Barcelona, also appeals as it allows him to stay close to his children.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Hansi Flick has made it clear in recent weeks that Garc\u00eda, a \u20ac25 million ($29m) summer signing from <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4be854c8-8180-5a6a-b855-35d8ff69448c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=88\">Espanyol<\/a>, is the first choice goalkeeper at the club.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\" \/><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Girona are closing in on the signing of Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen on loan, sources tell ESPN.\u00a0<cite>Photo by Jose Breton\/Pics Action\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/player\/_\/id\/131634\/wojciech-szczesny\" target=\"_blank\">Wojciech Szcz\u0119sny<\/a> also part of the squad, ESPN revealed earlier this month that Bar\u00e7a had opened the door for Ter Stegen, who has a contract until 2028, to leave in January.<\/p>\n<p>Ter Stegen has made 423 Bar\u00e7a appearances since signing from <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"be6362de-df8d-3007-955c-31754a0e6804\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=268\">Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach<\/a> in 2014, winning 17 trophies in that time, but injuries have curtailed his playing time since Flick&#8217;s appointment in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He missed the majority of last season with a knee injury and the first four months of the current campaign after undergoing back surgery, only returning to fitness in December.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/47630114\/barcelona-marc-andre-ter-stegen-girona-loan-transfer\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Jan 16, 2026, 08:53 AM ET Girona are closing in on the signing of Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen on loan until the end of the season, sources told ESPN on Friday. Ter Stegen, 33, has been replaced as Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s No. 1 by Joan Garc\u00eda and is keen to play regular &#8230; <a title=\"Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s Ter Stegen close to joining Girona on loan &#8211; sources\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=17177\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s Ter Stegen close to joining Girona on loan &#8211; sources\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Barcas-Ter-Stegen-close-to-joining-Girona-on-loan.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17179,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17177\/revisions\/17179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}