TA wrote that Barcelona's original plan to return to the Camp Nou Stadium has been shattered repeatedly, and now it has been lagging behind plans for nearly a year, which has put the club in a chaos in management and communication. The club once claimed that the stadium was "ready", but the Barcelona City Council immediately publicly refuted, saying it was not safe, which made the club lose face.
TA believes that this chaos has serious financial consequences. The club has been unable to sell season tickets so far, and has to temporarily arrange the game at the John Cruyff Stadium, which can only accommodate 6,000 people, resulting in a sharp drop in game day revenue.
Even at the larger Montwhich Olympic Stadium, the cost of €300,000 to €900,000 per game, not including the €41 million invested in the renovation of the venue in the past two years. The entire "Espai Barca" project costs as high as 1.4 billion euros, while the club's total debt has reached 2.4 billion euros.
However, in the face of such great chaos and financial pressure, the Barcelona fan base is extremely calm. Although the interviewed fans expressed dissatisfaction with the opacity of information and the delay in the plan, their emotions were more about understanding and helplessness.
The reasons behind this are complex. Barcelona's special status as a symbol of Catalan culture and its unique membership system (a total of 133,164 members worldwide) have made the relationship between fans and the club both profound and maintain a certain distance. One key figure is that there are only 16,151 season ticket holders at the temporary home court, far lower than the 82,000 during the Camp Nou period. The core reason why fans are patient is the team's outstanding performance on the court under coach Frick. The results of winning the domestic triple-champion last season, winning four wins from Real Madrid and reaching the Champions League semi-finals provide a "bullet-proof shield" to the club's senior management, especially chairman Laporta.
As long as the team continues to win, off-court management mistakes do not seem to shake his support. There are even supporters of Laporta who believe that it is the place that creates obstacles for the club's return, although the city council is "confused".
TA revealed that the players privately thought the whole situation was "ridiculous", but they were powerless about it and were used to operating in this uncertain chaos. They have experienced Olmo's registration storm, Ter Stegen was stripped of his captain's armband, and even the preseason was almost cancelled the day before. For players and coaching staff, Camp Nou's farce is just another situation that needs to be adapted, and as long as they can still play, their attention will not be distracted too much.
At the end of the day, Frick and his team are Laporta's most solid barriers. As long as the momentum of victory remains unabated, the chaos at Camp Nou will not turn into a trust crisis against management. But once the team's performance declines, this shield will expire, and the club's senior management will face the anger of fans and members.
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