Barça, behind a screen

Just as the pandemic severed many personal, familial, and social ties with the ban on physical contact, a closed Camp Nou has strained the ties between Barça members and the club.

The delay in the construction work according to the promised schedule and the repeated failure to meet the new deadlines announced as a carrot are almost irrelevant now, because everyone knows that any work, whether in a kitchen or a stadium, only has a start date. And everyone prefers a safe stadium to a rush. The problem isn't patience, but that members have been banished from this entire process, reduced to observing everything from behind a screen, just as we had to see the world in 2020.

It all started when the club's board of directors doubled the prices to climb Montjuïc and explained why it's happening. When they saw the magnitude of the exodus, they cut them in half, but the damage was already done. If you want to maintain the warmth of playing at home, make the members feel at home and make the players feel like they're playing at home in a stadium that has an athletics track. Nothing could be further from the truth: members relocated to worse seats because the best ones were more expensive to tourists, changing seats for every match, absurdities like tickets more expensive to see Getafe than to see PSG, QR codes sent out just hours before the match, goodbye for environmental reasons to the physical membership card (which costs 10 euros, which makes the harm to the planet disappear), closure of the animation stand... This season's season tickets were offered in haste, on a weekday mid-morning, without prior notice. The president will speak about these and other matters at next week's general meeting. Behind a screen, of course.