Let's start by stating that the day Barça members can return to the completed Camp Nou, they will find it the best stadium in the world and will forget all the delays, the years spent at Montjuïc, and the lotteries to be able to go to Johan Cruyff or the Camp Nou halfway, the day they arrive. In this, there are no distinctions: everyone is eager to return home because there's no place like home, and when you return, the excitement of the re-opening makes up for the inconvenience.
After all, everyone knows that when you do work on your home, you never know when it will be finished. But with the work on the new Camp Nou, we're not talking about a few weeks or a few months. It was supposed to be finished by November 2024, by the start of the second half of last season's La Liga campaign, by the final matches of the 2024/2025 season, by the Gamper Stadium on August 8, and by the fourth La Liga match of the 2025/2026 season, and none of that has happened.
Either the builders charmed the board, or the board believed they could dangle a carrot in front of the members and convince them to accept the offer with justification, even if they lost credibility with each announced and unmet date, thinking that, after all, members will swallow anything as long as the team wins. Therefore, while sharing the excitement about a reopening that seems imminent, it would be good if the Barça president offered a simple apology to the members, admitting that things haven't gone as he's repeatedly announced. We live in a world where power no longer apologizes because it sees it as a sign of weakness, and tends to point out enemies everywhere, especially at home, thus enclosing itself surrounded by a circle of unconditional supporters. But in a club that claims to be democratic, a minimal sense of accountability obliges those in power to leave the sugar-coated fiction of propaganda and enter the realm of reality.
