Laporta: Rashford will not be registered for Barcelona´s LaLiga opener
Barcelona president Joan Laporta has conceded that Marcus Rashford will not be registered for the LaLiga opener in opposition to Mallorca.
Rashford, who joined the Blaugrana on a season-long mortgage from Manchester United, is one in every of 4 new signings for the LaLiga champions this summer season.
Hansi Flick’s workforce have additionally welcomed Joan Garcia in a €25m deal from Espanyol, with Roony Bardghji and Roger Martinez additionally becoming a member of on a everlasting foundation.
However a dispute with Marc-Andre ter Stegen over his damage standing threatened to disrupt Barcelona’s probabilities of registering their new signings.
The Catalan membership at the moment have just one eligible goalkeeper, Inaki Pena, to face Mallorca on Saturday, as each Garcia and Wojciech Szczesny aren’t but registered with La Liga.
Ter Stegen was stripped of the captaincy on Thursday after refusing to permit Barcelona to share his medical knowledge with LaLiga.
The Blaugrana would reportedly have been in a position to clear 80% of the German goalkeeper’s wages till mid-season if the 33-year-old was classed as a long-term absentee.
That may have allowed them to liberate funds to register new gamers, with the timeframe to achieve that threshold deemed to be 4 months.
Nonetheless, Ter Stegen posted on social media that he can be sidelined for 3 months, however the two events have since confirmed the state of affairs has been resolved.
Barcelona have since confirmed that Garcia shall be prepared for the beginning of the 2025-26 season, whereas Laporta mentioned they’re nonetheless awaiting readability on Rashford’s state of affairs.
“We’re working to make it occur. With Marc’s choice, now we have the choice of registering Joan Garcia, and we’re engaged on the remainder,” Laporta mentioned.
“This week we’ll have information, hopefully excellent news, to see if we will register them earlier than La Liga begins. And if we will’t, now we have time.”
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Laporta’s feedback got here after Barcelona reclaimed the Joan Gamper Trophy with a 5-0 thrashing of Como, a recreation that noticed Rashford earn his first begin for the membership.
The England worldwide grabbed an help for Raphinha within the match, with Flick’s facet led by braces from Fermin Lopez and Ballon d’Or contender Lamine Yamal.
Following the victory, Ter Stegen delivered a speech to the Barcelona supporters to additional make clear the state of affairs and that he was trying ahead to the brand new season.
“It’s a very long time coming. Thanks very a lot for coming to the Johan,” Ter Stegen mentioned.
“Clearly, all of us share the identical pleasure and wish to return to the Camp Nou, our residence. There’s little or no time left.
“As for me, I believe it was essential to resolve the problem between the membership and me, and it’s time to look ahead. Moreover, we now have new faces.
“I wish to welcome them and supply them my assist. With these signings, we’re going to be stronger, and I’m positive they’ll slot in very properly with this locker room.
“We should enhance in some elements and, as all the time, we are going to combat for each trophy once more. We hope that, together with your assist, we will win as many titles as potential.”
Barcelona kickstart their LaLiga title defence on August 16 away to Mallorca, having gone unbeaten of their 4 pre-season friendlies, scoring 20 objectives in these matches.
