Marc-Andre Ter Stegen has admitted his ongoing concern over Barcelona’s readiness for the 2023/24 season.
The German international played a pivotal role as La Blaugrana sealed a first La Liga title since 2019 after he started all 38 league games of the 2022/23 campaign.
Ter Stegen also enjoyed a superb individual season with 26 clean sheets from those 38 matches to win the Zamora Trophy for the first time in his Barcelona career.
However, frustration in the Champions League was a key aspect for Xavi’s team, as they bowed out of the competition at the group stage, prior to the 2022 World Cup.
That was followed by a failure to make an impact on the Europa League and Ter Stegen is concerned by their issues on the European stage.
Barcelona are back in the Champions League this season but Ter Stegen knows there is still work to be done for Xavi’s emerging squad in the months ahead.
“In the last two years we have not lived up to expectations in the Champions League. We have not been up to it and that needs to change”, as per reports from Marca.
Fortaleza
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What do you expect? Their priority every season is the league, and to beat Real Madrid. They won't ever see their way on the UCL stage. I'll be surprised if they make it past the group stages this season. 😂
Cashmo
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No one can replace this guy.his so genius let's put more support to him guys ♥️💚
sarabia007
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he knows deep down Barca is joking around with media rated player and inexperienced coach
BillyDedon
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Believe it or not our main problem is Xavi he is not up to the level required for Barcelona trust me, first of all he favours nationality than performance even our board is contributing to this and that's why we keep on failing in the big stages. Now tell me what Alonso and and Roberto are doing in this team even Ferran Toress shouldn't be playing for Barcelona in the first place but because there are all Spanish even without performing well our bias coach will still play them. What do Alonso and Roberto really have to offer us? Xavi doesn't know how to train a top team and that's why our team lack physicality, intensity and good attacking tactics, the other day he was complaining about Arsenal intensity because he doesn't train the team to play at that level, he doesn't know how to organise and prepare a team on how to play big and intense game even with the signing we made last year and this year won't be exceptional, unless we are in a weaker group in the Ucl we won't still make it out of the group if we fine ourselves in those strong groups again.