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The Athletic FC is The Athletic's daily football (or soccer, if you prefer) newsletter. Sign up to receive it directly to your inbox. Alright folks? Barcelona are the gift that keeps on giving. Today, we bring you part 3,865 of their transfer melodrama. Coming up: 😨 Ter Stegen's Barca mischief 🎉 How the Lionesses celebrated 🧤 A tale of two goalkeepers 🤩 Goal(s) of the season already? One regular week of Barca, that's all we ask. July has been quite something, even by Barcelona's standards. If it's not their on-off pre-season tour in Asia, it's their on-off new stadium or, in a recurring theme, their on-off new players. The club's latest administrative escapade involves a veteran of 422 appearances, namely goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, whose time as Barcelona's No 1 and club captain appears to be coming to an end. Advertisement In literal terms, it may be over already — Joan Garcia, who joined from neighbours Espanyol this summer, wore the No 1 shirt during a friendly against Vissel Kobe in Japan on Sunday. Anyway, Ter Stegen is back on the treatment table, which is where he also spent most of last season (you may recall it led Barca to coax former Arsenal and Juventus goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny out of retirement). But exactly how long Ter Stegen, 33, is sidelined having undergone back surgery this week is very, very important. Barcelona have maxed out their domestic salary cap, but a four-month spell out would be enough for Ter Stegen to be regarded as a long-term absentee, according to La Liga's rulebook. That would then allow Barca to unlock 80 per cent of his wages to, you guessed it, register a new signing in their squad. Ideal. This situation happened last season, too, allowing Barcelona to register new attacker Dani Olmo after defender Andreas Christensen was sidelined with an Achilles tendon injury. A classic like-for-like replacement there. However, there is a spanner in the works this time in the form of Ter Stegen and his X account. The Germany international, who has no intention of leaving the club, posted an update on his recovery, giving a very specific timescale of… wait for it… three months. Barcelona's plans to register Ter Stegen's replacement may have been scuppered by their own player, unless doctors can convince La Liga's panel that Ter Stegen will, in fact, be out for at least four months. It's all a bit ludicrous, but this being Barcelona, you'd imagine they'll find a way. A penny for Marcus Rashford's thoughts, too — the Manchester United loanee hasn't yet been registered to play for Barca, and his first week at the Catalan club involved the brief postponement and then reinstatement of their trip halfway across the world to Japan. Oh, and Barcelona still don't know when they can move back into Camp Nou after two years away while the stadium is extensively renovated. Advertisement Our Barca man, Pol Ballus — who must find watching soap operas to be seriously mundane with their run-of-the-mill storylines — has been all over the latest madcap twists. And you just know they will probably still win La Liga and/or the Champions League in the coming season. Barca gonna Barca. 🖱️ Most clicked in yesterday's TAFC: Tim Weah's agent was not happy. England's victorious Lionesses have given us quite a few iconic moments in the past couple of weeks. Manager Sarina Wiegman's jaw hitting the floor when Burna Boy came onto the stage outside Buckingham Palace as part of their homecoming celebrations on Tuesday is right up there. The party hasn't stopped since the final on Sunday night and Charlotte Harpur has shared all the details of a few days the team will never forget, including their post-match celebrations in Switzerland, a reception at 10 Downing Street and then being greeted by a 65,000-strong crowd in London yesterday, with millions more watching at home. Incredible. We're in the height of the summer transfer window, so it's only right that The Athletic's latest star signing gets a proper fanfare. Henry Bushnell has joined as a senior writer in the United States, and was kind enough to pause his deep dive into mandatory HR induction videos to tell us his hopes and fears going into a crucial 12 months… What are the burning issues for U.S. soccer? The U.S. men's national team has regressed toward a 21st-century low. Major League Soccer hasn't tried to accelerate. The U.S. Soccer Federation is navigating a move to its new national training center in Atlanta, and doesn't seem prepared to truly capitalize. Everyone says and knows that the 2026 World Cup could be 'transformational.' But the burning issue is how those entities (plus many others) use the tournament's legacy to push the sport forward. Advertisement How can MLS continue to develop? Loosen roster restrictions and spend a lot more money on players. Which topic are you most excited to explore? The chaos of the 2026 World Cup. Some of it — the passion that inundates U.S. cities — will be glorious. Other issues — visa denials, exorbitant costs, America's allergy to public transport — could be a stain on the tournament, and are just as important to document. What is your biggest wish for soccer in the States? That the sport could be more accessible for kids, no matter their socioeconomic status. (And I look forward to exploring, and explaining to readers, why it currently isn't. Champions League second qualifying round, second leg: Panathinaikos (0) vs Rangers (2), 2pm/7pm — BBC (UK only) Leagues Cup group stage: Inter Miami vs Atlas, 7.30pm/12.30am; Club America vs Real Salt Lake, 9.30pm/2.30am — both Apple TV. The last football season has only just finished but we already have not one, but two goal-of-the-season contenders for the new one. In what was literally the first match of the 2025-26 English professional football campaign, Newport County produced a couple of stunners in their Carabao Cup preliminary round tie at Barnet last night. Cameron Antwi unleashed an airborne karate-kick volley and then Michael Reindorf planted an unsaveable beauty into the top part of the top corner just a few first-half minutes later. It was a cracking game, too — Barnet scored twice deep into stoppage time to level things up… and then Newport won on penalties. 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