When in a few years the Camp Nou is finished and operating at full capacity, it is very likely that all the delays and setbacks that have occurred in the remodeling will be forgotten. Or that they will be remembered as mere anecdotes. But a long time is still needed to reach that point. Not even now, when it is supposedly in the final stretch, is there any sense of calm in a club that cannot afford any more delays in this last stage of the renovation.

Halfway through the Champions League match between Barça and Feyenoord, a Dutch fan showing clear signs of drunkenness urinated into a cup and decided to throw it forward, into the area where Barça supporters were sitting. He only had to get it over a methacrylate fence about three meters high. The complaint, which a member who narrowly avoided being splashed made to the ARA, is not an isolated incident. Neither by a single supporter nor in a single match. For many years, Barça season ticket holders have been reporting problems of incivility that the club will try to resolve – at least partially – once the renovation work on the Camp Nou is finished.

After a week of dragging doubts due to the two consecutive defeats against PSG and Real Madrid, Hansi Flick's Barça heart started beating again in the best way it knows how: with goals (6-1). The inexhaustible faith of Fermín López once again guided the Blaugrana to the path of triumph and, for another matchday, the team will continue as leaders of La Liga.

With 19.1 million in revenue from ticket sales, Sunday's Barça-Madrid El Clásico became the highest-grossing match in Camp Nou history. Never before had a single match generated so much money. And it wasn't just the seats and the VIP products. We must also add the additional 1.5 million collected at the stadium shop over the weekend. The result on the pitch was not what the fans wanted, but the club was licking its wounds thinking about a business model that might be unpopular, but is clearly effective.

Barça and Real Madrid will face each other this Sunday night at Camp Nou (21:00, DAZN). Fate has willed that Lamine Yamal's first Clásico at Camp Nou coincides with the return of José Mourinho as the white team's manager to a stadium where he received an unforgettable 5-0 defeat in the culé memory and where he engaged in absolutely lamentable outbursts. The Portuguese coach, who will return to the blaugrana stronghold thirteen years later, will have the last-minute absence of Thibaut Courtois, who is suffering from the flu. The Ukrainian goalkeeper Illia Voloshyn has been called up to the squad in place of the Belgian. Another Ukrainian, Andriy Lunin, will start the match, despite Courtois having tried to be there until the last moment.

If anyone wants to go on Sunday to see the classic and still doesn't have a ticket, they should know that they will have to pay at least 1,000 euros to get one. After the first ones sold out, Barça has put a second batch of tickets on sale in different areas of the Camp Nou. The cheapest ones, which sold out on Thursday, cost 1,109 euros in the lower part of the goal, behind the goal. But they come with an asterisk: they are of restricted visibility. A part of the pitch is covered due to the advertising hoardings.

There is no contest. This is the feeling with which the 40,533 people present at the Camp Nou went home. Neither the torrential rains, nor the hurricane, nor the absences the team of Pere Romeu had –Laia Aleixandri, Kika Nazareth and Vicky López–, nor the improvement in the Real Madrid squad. Nothing could prevent another rout by the 'blaugranes' against their eternal rival (7-0), the biggest difference in a Barça-Madrid so far.

There are matches that are marked on the calendar in red, and this Sunday's is one of them. The Barça women's team returns to the Camp Nou to host Real Madrid (19:00 hours, DAZN), but is keeping an eye on the sky due to the risk of storms in Catalonia. The match, which was supposed to be played at 17:00 hours, has been postponed for two hours due to the forecast of extreme rain and the risk of flooding. The blue and red club had asked the League for the postponement, which it finally ended up granting. The Catalan entity reminds that one can access the stadium with small, foldable umbrellas, while long and rigid umbrellas are not permitted in accordance with current safety regulations.

Everything is going well in this Hansi Flick's Barça, which has kicked off the season like thunder. A thrashing (5-2) against Rayo Vallecano and three unassailable victories in three League matches. The rivals end up as broken toys in the hands of the blaugrana steamroller. No player has a full stomach, everyone puts on their work overalls and, hungry and united, they turn Barça into a marvelous combination of talent and effort that makes a very excited fan base happy, even though this has only just begun. Even Lamine Yamal, who had made some grimaces in the last two matches, showed a beaming smile after scoring a great goal and having a great performance at the Camp Nou. The stadium sings and dances, proud of a squad that has been reinforced with new faces like an Anthony Gordon who has landed on his feet, a Rodri who is gradually picking up pace, and old acquaintances who want to be loved again like Andreas Christensen. Also from youth academy players, like a Xavi Espart who seems to have been playing with the first team for half his life.

In life, one must have a well-defined personality and defend it. Know who you are. And Barça seems to know it on the pitch and also in the stands. With a backdrop in the form of full of estelades stands in which at times it seemed we had returned to 2017, Hansi Flick's third project is increasing the optimism of the blaugranas, adding points and raising the game. Yesterday he defeated a good Athletic Club 2-0 who sold their skin dearly, and he has already won six out of six. The new players give their all, Rodrigo already wears blaugrana when people recently imagined he would wear white and the youngsters from La Masia are asking to play.

There will be no tribute at Camp Nou to the world champions with Spain on the eve of this Thursday's match against Athletic Club (9 p.m., DAZN). "It is neither the context nor the most appropriate moment. Football should serve to unite and not to create confrontations that do not benefit anyone," declared Joan Laporta, before confirming that Barça will change the congratulations to the world champions for an "act of exaltation of the estelada, which represents the way of thinking of many Barça fans and Catalans." The blaugrana president, who since 2021 had maintained a low profile regarding pro-independence demonstrations and who showed explicit support for the Roja during the World Cup, reiterated that the estelada is a legal symbol within freedom of expression. "It does not generate violence or hatred. It must be respected because it represents our desires for freedom," he stated.

This Wednesday, football returns to Camp Nou. More than three months after the victory against Betis (3-1), Barça is playing at home again. They will do so in the Joan Gamper Trophy against Egyptian Al-Ahly (8 PM) which will serve to present the new blaugrana squad. So far, there are three new faces available to Hansi Flick: Karim Adeyemi, Anthony Gordon and Rodri Hernández, recently made official.

Barça culminated a historic night to remember. The 2-0 victory allows the azulgranas to conquer the 29th League in their history, the second consecutive one since Hansi Flick's arrival at the bench. The Camp Nou experienced a night full of joy in what was a party from the first moment. Rashford and Ferran Torres put the 2-0 just after the start of the match against a Real Madrid that closed a week to forget —with internal fights included— seeing how the eternal rival won (and lifted) the League right in front of their noses.

The most anticipated match of the season arrives at Camp Nou. Barça hosts Real Madrid in what could be a celebration for Barcelonism. After the surreal week experienced in Valdebebas — with the fight between Tchouaméni and Fede Valverde — Hansi Flick's team can deliver the decisive blow on Sunday from 9 p.m. If the blaugranas do not lose, they will be mathematically crowned league champions with three matchdays still to play.

The dream of Oslo is now a reality. On May 23, Barça will play in a Champions League final again – the sixth consecutive, the seventh in the last eight years – after beating Bayern Munich at Camp Nou. Pere Romeu's team has shown that they also know how to compete bravely against great rivals and overcome adverse scenarios, which they are not accustomed to throughout the season. Goals from Salma Paralluelo, Ewa Pajor, and Alexia Putellas – with a brace – allow Barça to dream of their fourth Champions League (4-2). In the Oslo final, they will face Olympique Lyon, featuring former blaugranas Jonatan Giráldez and Ingrid Engen.

“It’s not just about the money, it’s about time and growth”. This is the reflection made by Pau Quesada, technician of Real Madrid, after conceding the 6-0 at Camp Nou. Barça once again demonstrated why it is a benchmark team and one we can be proud of, as Alexia Putellas described after the match. “I feel that we are all moving in the same direction: fans, team, and club”, added the captain. The blaugranes filled Camp Nou with 60,067 people, the best attendance since returning to the stadium. The attendance against Real Madrid surpassed the 56,812 spectators who had gathered ten days earlier to watch Barça - Rayo Vallecano (1-0).

Words are running out to describe this team. The Barça women's team has once again made history, both on and off the field. Pere Romeu's squad has gathered 60,067 people at the Camp Nou – an absolute record since returning to the stadium, for both men's and women's teams –, Alexia Putellas has reached 500 matches with the blaugrana jersey and, on the field, has once again thrashed – and crucified – Real Madrid, for the third time in a week. 6-0 at the end of 90 minutes in Barcelona and 12-2 on aggregate in the tie. Barça advances with a firm step to the semifinals for the eighth consecutive season and will face Bayern Munich.

“Alexia is Barça”. That is how Irene Paredes and Patri Guijarro – two of the captains – summarize Alexia Putellas. Almost 5,000 days after wearing the Barça jersey for the first time, the Mollet native has once again made history at the Camp Nou, where she has reached 500 games in the blaugrana shirt. This is yet another example of what a key player represents in the growth of the Catalan club. When Alexia debuted with Barça on August 24, 2012 – after playing for Espanyol and Levante to grow and establish herself in the First Division –, Barça had not yet played any Champions League matches, had just won their first league title – now they are on their way to their eleventh – and only had two Cups in their trophy cabinet – on May 16th, they could lift their twelfth.

Barça will open Camp Nou on Thursday, April 2nd (6:45 pm) for the Women's Champions League quarter-final. Chelsea will play at Stamford Bridge; Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena; Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium; Manchester United at Old Trafford; Olympique Lyonnais at the Groupama Stadium; Wolfsburg at the Volkswagen Arena... and Real Madrid at the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium. This means that Real Madrid is the only team that will not open its main stadium for the Champions League quarter-finals. This is no surprise, as the team managed by Pau Quesada has never played at the Bernabéu since its creation in 2019, when it absorbed the modest Tacón. A year ago, midfielder Melanie Leupolz confessed on the podcast... Kicker FE:maleShe had spoken with Florentino Pérez. The German footballer explained that the Real Madrid president told the players he would open the Santiago Bernabéu stadium to the women's first team "when they win their first title."

More than 55 years ago, a group of pioneering women made history by defying the society of that time. On December 25, 1970—still under Franco's dictatorship—Barça Women played their first match at Camp Nou. Imma Cabecerán was one of those responsible after meeting with the then-president of Barça, Agustí Montal i Costa. "If you bring me 15 girls, go ahead," was the response from the top Barça official. And so it was done. Through an advertisement in the newspaper, many women called to join the project. "They told us to meet at the Barcelona sports complex, where the Miniestadi used to be. After a month of training on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the day arrived to play at Camp Nou," explains Lolita Ortiz (Barcelona, ​​1944), one of the pioneers who is currently part of the Barça Women's Players Association.