Deco: Teliots is a top goalkeeper, and Barcelona has no plans to let him leave the team

According to World Sports, Barcelona sports director Deco was interviewed and talked about the topics of Ter Stegen and Joan-Garcia.

When did Barcelona consider signing Joan Garcia?

At first I didn't think the goalkeeper was the top priority for signing, but then we began to pay attention to those players who had already registered in the scouting system. We knew Joan Garcia very early, and his performance in recent years also confirms our judgment of him. We want to sign him because Barcelona's goalkeeper needs to be strengthened in the current and future.

Since there is already Ter Stegen in Barcelona's formation, why should we introduce Joan Garcia? There is no connection between these two things. Now many problems are made out of nothing and are over-amplified. First of all, Ter Stegen is a top goalkeeper and captain. He has a brilliant resume in the club, and we are full of respect and recognition for this - and he is currently 33 years old, not very old, and he still has the opportunity to continue writing the legend in the future. The truth is that whenever Ter Stegen suffers from an injury, we will find that the team's goalkeeper is insufficient, so we start looking for goalkeepers. (Signing Joan Garcia) This was not originally in our initial plan. We wanted to bring in a young goalkeeper at the time: If it was just to solve the current problem, we would consider players aged 28 or 30. Why choose young players? Because young goalkeepers can not only meet current needs, but also provide guarantees for the team's future. This is exactly the core idea of ​​introducing Joan-Garcia. The matter itself is very simple, but now many topics are being hyped far beyond the actual situation.

Many people are wondering whether they have informed Ter Stegen in advance that Barcelona wants to introduce a new goalkeeper?

But we have to figure out one thing: "Explain the signing decision to the players" is not true in itself. I would like to emphasize again that there is no so-called "contradiction" or "competitive problem" between Ter Stegen and Joan-Garcia. We first started to focus on the goalkeeper position when Ter Stegen was injured for the first time. We never thought about finding a "replacement of Ter Stegen". The problem we were facing at that time was that only Peña was available on the team, and the other goalkeepers were too young to meet the needs of the first team.

Telstegen is expected to complete his recovery in December. Will Barcelona provide convenience for his departure in January?

At present, there is no content about Ter Stegen's departure in our plan. We are now facing the problem of a shortage of goalkeepers - although the U20 World Cup is very important to (Barcelona young goalkeeper) Cohen, we still have to call him back from Chile. Now only Szczesny and Cohen are available in our team, and the other goalkeepers are too young. If Ter Stegen can play now, he will definitely be the team's player. He has a contract with the club, and that's the case.

Terstegen said before the operation that he only needed to recuperate for three months. There are obviously some considerations behind this statement. What do you think about this?

I will not intervene in this kind of topic. It must be because he recovered after only two and a half months to three months of recuperation when he suffered a back injury last time, so I guess he hopes to return to the team early this time. From this point of view, we should ask him about this kind of question himself, and we will not participate in the discussion.