Marc-Andre ter Stegen has signed a new contract that will keep him at Barcelona until 2022.
The 25-year-old German shot-stopper has put pen to paper and has committed his future to the Catalan club. The club made the announcement of Ter Stegen’s signing through their social media profiles.
Barcelona signed the then promising youngster after both Valdes and Jose Pinto left the club in 2014. The former Monchengladbach player joined Barcelona for a fee somewhere in the region of 10 million pounds. But the buyout clause was set at 63.6 million pounds.
#UCLfinal winner Marc-André ter Stegen has agreed to extend his contract with Barcelona until 2022. 🙌 #TerStegen2022 pic.twitter.com/RzI9mQ01FP
— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) May 29, 2017
And now with the new deal, the buyout clause is expected to rise significantly.
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Ter Stegen who has been at the Catalan club for three seasons now has appeared in 93 competitive games for them. During the first two season, he was more or less a second choice keeper after Claudio Bravo. But since Bravo’s departure to Man City last summer, Ter Stegen has emerged as the new number one.
[BREAKING NEWS]@mterstegen1 to renew contract with @FCBarcelona until June of 2022#TerStegen2022 pic.twitter.com/IA9EJjjWfl
— FC Barcelona 🏆🏆 (@FCBarcelona) May 29, 2017
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This season he has appeared 36 times in the Liga for Barcelona and has managed to keep 13 clean sheets in those. He has made as many as 102 saves in the whole season for Barcelona. Ter Stegen has also been highly praised as well as acclaimed for his passing and distribution from the back.
While rivals Real Madrid are in pursuit of David De Gea to solidify their number 1 spot, it looks as if Barcelona have already sorted out that area.
