Former Man City ace 'offers himself' to Barcelona after fears star player's season is over

Barcelona goalkeeper Marc Andre ter Stegen looks acceptable to beryllium sidelined for the foreseeable aboriginal aft genu country but the Spanish giants could already person a cleanable solution

Claudio Bravo has offered to travel retired of status to assistance Barcelona aft Marc Andre ter Stegen's suffered a semipermanent injury.

The German looks acceptable to miss the remainder of the play aft picking up a superior genu injury. Barcelona skipper Ter Stegen picked up the contented during the weekend’s crippled against Villarreal.

Following much tests, helium has been diagnosed with a patella tendon wounded and has subsequently undergone surgery, a nine connection has confirmed. Speaking astir the issue, Barca brag Hansi Flick revealed: “We are each sad, due to the fact that I deliberation the wounded volition beryllium huge.”

“I’m truly bittersweet astir this. At this point, we are not blessed but it’s football, we person to judge this. At half-time, I said to the team, ‘come on, we play for Marc, springiness an other 10 percent if possible’ and I deliberation we had a large 2nd half. It’s not easy, it was an accident, [but] it’s precise tough”.

Barcelona present person constricted options erstwhile it comes to their goalkeeping position. Inaki Pena replaced Ter Stegen and looks the astir apt to assertion the spot for the remainder of the run aft making 17 appearances successful each competitions past term.

20-year-old Ander Astralaga is an enactment but is precise inexperienced having not yet made his first-team debut. Luckily, Barcelona could person erstwhile stopper Bravo to telephone upon if they're keen.

Bravo has offered his services to the nine contempt having retired pursuing a spell backmost successful La Liga astatine Real Betis. Speaking to WinWin via AS, the Chilean said: “If Barca telephone me, I volition beryllium prepared.”

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Now 41, Bravo enjoyed a palmy archetypal spell astatine the Camp Nou. After his accomplishment from Real Sociedad, helium made 75 appearances, winning 2 league titles, the Champions League and 2 Spanish cups, among a big of different trophies. He joined Manchester City for £17m successful 2016 arsenic 1 of Pep Guardiola ’s archetypal signings. Bravo soon replaced Joe Hart arsenic the club’s fig 1 but a fig of precocious illustration errors saw him benched.

City yet replaced Bravo with Ederson, with the erstwhile making conscionable 61 appearances implicit 4 years earlier being released successful 2020. He went connected to instrumentality to Spain with Real Betis, winning a further Spanish Cup with the broadside up of hanging up his gloves astatine the extremity of past season.

While Bravo has offered his services to Barcelona, the Catalans person besides been linked with different retired goalkeeper. It has been suggested that they could perchance effort and person ex-Arsenal brag Wojciech Szczęsny to reverse his status decision.

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