1 - Marc-Andre ter Ansplant

[Egert]

There's a total deal on Ter Stegen. He will sign until 2019. Barcelona will pay 12M. Announcement when Valdes announces his new club.

 

[BorussiaBarcelona]

There's a total deal on Ter Stegen. He will sign until 2019. Barcelona will pay 12M. Announcement when Valdes announces his new club.

Well, that's where the spanish and german media differs.
Most spanish newspapers are writing about 12M, while in Germany there's always talk about a higher amount as the transfer fee.

Today, the Rheinische Post(pretty solid newspaper) states that we could receive about the same amount of money as we received for Marco Reus two years ago.

And back then, Dortmund paid 17.1M for Reus.

So I think it will be something in between or maybe those 12M are up front while there are some bonuses included.
Also, most newspapers are writing that Valdes is the key to why things haven't been announced yet.

 

[barcanuck]

There's a total deal on Ter Stegen. He will sign until 2019. Barcelona will pay 12M. Announcement when Valdes announces his new club.

Yay hopefully they will annouce it soon I'm tired of speculation.

 

[Flavia]

Heynckes: "I'd sign Ter Stegen now. He's ready to replace Valdes. He's young, but he's very mature".
"When Tito coached Barça, I followed him. They played likewise or better than before".

 

[ThwiX]

We should've asked him to be our coach.

 

[Luftstalag14]

Why Ter Stegen Can Replace Valdés

 

[khaled_a_d]

Why Ter Stegen Can Replace Valdés

Whar impresses me most is his crosses claimed ,he seems better than VV in that area ,he is also 6 cm taller .that good save us some of the troubles we have with set pieces

 

[Xtroverto]

These comparisons are completely pointless. What Ter Stegen does in Borussia Mönchengladbach means jack shit, FC Barcelona is a totally different beast. Victor Baia ran circles around Zubizarreta when he played for FC Porto, then he came to us and cracked after 5 minutes, he couldn't handle the pressure and chances are that Ter Stegen also will crack under the pressure, being young and with no prior experience of playing in a club whose fans and media jeer the players the very moment they fail. If Ter Stegen come here and have 3-4 bad matches at the start of the season, he is finished as Barca GK, he will be benched and loose all his confidence never to return.

 

[Alarcón]

If Ter Stegen come here and have 3-4 bad matches at the start of the season, he is finished as Barca GK, he will be benched and loose all his confidence never to return.

Thank god you know everything

 

[Neymessi]

These comparisons are completely pointless. What Ter Stegen does in Borussia Mönchengladbach means jack shit, FC Barcelona is a totally different beast. Victor Baia ran circles around Zubizarreta when he played for FC Porto, then he came to us and cracked after 5 minutes, he couldn't handle the pressure and chances are that Ter Stegen also will crack under the pressure, being young and with no prior experience of playing in a club whose fans and media jeer the players the very moment they fail. If Ter Stegen come here and have 3-4 bad matches at the start of the season, he is finished as Barca GK, he will be benched and loose all his confidence never to return.

He is actually a great GK but yes he cant be compared to valdez with those stats. And no he wont be benched for playing a little bad and play pinto instead.

 

[khaled_a_d]

These comparisons are completely pointless. What Ter Stegen does in Borussia Mönchengladbach means jack shit, FC Barcelona is a totally different beast. Victor Baia ran circles around Zubizarreta when he played for FC Porto, then he came to us and cracked after 5 minutes, he couldn't handle the pressure and chances are that Ter Stegen also will crack under the pressure, being young and with no prior experience of playing in a club whose fans and media jeer the players the very moment they fail. If Ter Stegen come here and have 3-4 bad matches at the start of the season, he is finished as Barca GK, he will be benched and loose all his confidence never to return.

What pressure? VV wasn't highly rated for most football fans around the world for years and made tons of mistake and he was still supported by many barca fans and survived ,MATS isn't replacing Buffon or Casillas and if he had few bad games won't be a problem b/c fan still remember that VV had many bad games
I am not trying to underrate Valdes,he is still a club legend and he is g8 GK considering the other GKs we had ,but the bar isn't set too high tbh ,Valdes was never considered top 3 GKs in the world .
And Marc is known to be a high character guy ,he will survive once he is used to it ,Fans was patient with Valdes,I don't know why they won't be patient with his replacement

 

[linetty]

Good performance so far against Leverkusen.

 

[Deco 20]

What pressure? VV wasn't highly rated for most football fans around the world for years and made tons of mistake and he was still supported by many barca fans and survived ,MATS isn't replacing Buffon or Casillas and if he had few bad games won't be a problem b/c fan still remember that VV had many bad games
I am not trying to underrate Valdes,he is still a club legend and he is g8 GK considering the other GKs we had ,but the bar isn't set too high tbh ,Valdes was never considered top 3 GKs in the world .
And Marc is known to be a high character guy ,he will survive once he is used to it ,Fans was patient with Valdes,I don't know why they won't be patient with his replacement

He was better than Casillas for most of the last 5-6 years

 

[Galning]

I said it before.. I really think the next Barcelona keeper will suffer. Hope I'm wrong. Took Valdés long enough before he started to become awesome and look at the keepers we had prior to him. Keeping at Barça is totally different than keeping in any other team.

 

[coura]

"fans" will trash him at 1st mistake. barça style