Bus and coach companies that transport tourists to Barcelona refuse to relinquish their right to operate right into the heart of the city. And this Tuesday morning, they made their position abundantly clear to the Collboni administration. The sector has expressed its outright rejection of the new Bus Zone 4.0 being designed by the City Council, which aims to reorganize and restrict the flow of tourist coaches in the center of the Catalan capital. Several companies and associations took advantage of the sector's fifth annual meeting, organized by the employers' association FECAV, to voice their discontent with this measure, promoted by the Tourism Department, which directly impacts mobility. "Unfair," "unrealistic," and "impoverishing": this is how professionals have described this initiative, which has already begun to reorganize the space, stops, and methods by which this sector can enter and circulate within the Catalan capital to transport its clients to the city's main points of interest. Among other measures, the Bus Zone 4.0 aims to eliminate bus stops in the city center, limit their operating hours, and require coach companies to take reservations to prevent the accumulation of vehicles and tourists in any one area. "The sector is suffering and things are getting worse; but we still have hope that it can be drastically reformed," declared Miquel Àngel Díez, vice president of the Professional Association of Tourist Guides of Catalonia. Díez made this statement in response to the City Council representative, Lídia Torres, Director of Mobility Services for Barcelona, ​​who, in her turn to speak, asserted that "the city is finite and needs order, and the model we had until now no longer works." "We have tourist coaches driving around without any organization," Torres declared before nearly 200 professionals from the coach sector. The head of municipal Mobility also insisted that change is necessary: ​​"A new urban model is needed." "We don't want to restrict, but rather reorganize, and both residents and tourists will appreciate that," Torres tried to explain, although that didn't reassure the attendees, who maintain that there are still "too many uncertainties" about this new model.

At the beginning of the season, Pedri expressed on the program Martinez and Brothers the fear he felt for arriving five minutes late to a recovery session with Xavi Hernández. The Terrassa native issued fines of one thousand euros, which doubled for every minute of delay in training. Ousmane Dembélé, currently at PSG, was the player who stretched his wallet the most during this period, followed by his compatriot Jules Kounde. With the arrival of Hansi Flick to the Barça dugout, the relationship between players and coach has undergone some changes. Among them, the entry into force of a rule that penalizes lateness even more. If his pupils don't stick to the schedule, they already know they'll be substitutes in the next match.