Barcelona’s free agent options to replace Marc-André ter Stegen

An insight into the options available to La Liga giants Barcelona to replace the injured Marc-André ter Stegen has on Monday been provided.

This, of course, comes after Barca’s no.1 was condemned to a long-term spell on the sidelines.

Ter Stegen was forced into a premature departure from his side’s La Liga downing of Villarreal on Sunday, leaving the pitch on a stretcher whilst in a flood of tears.

In turn, it came as little surprise when the serious nature of the German international’s injury was confirmed, with Ter Stegen having suffered a complete rupture in the patella tendon in his right knee.

The 32-year-old therefore went under the knife this afternoon, expected to spend the remainder of the campaign on the sidelines as a result.

As much has left those behind the scenes in Catalunya’s capital with something of a dilemma, now weighing up the possibility of dipping into the free agent market for reinforcements between the posts.

So, just who is available to the Blaugrana at present?

As per a report from Diario AS, the list of active goalkeepers who currently find themselves without a club chiefly consists of:

• Keylor Navas

• Loris Karius

• Tomas Vaclik

• Sergio Rico

• Edgar Badía

• Jordi Masip

• Kristoffer Klaesson

• Jiri Pavlenka

Also worth mentioning are retired pair Claudio Bravo and Wojciech Szczęsny, the former of whom has already made public his availability to his former club.

Conor Laird – GSFN