Romanticism is paid. And more in this Barcelona of war economy where each game adds up to achieve the economic objectives that Joan Laporta's directive has set. Specifically, to cut a minimum of 200 million that Javier Tebas' LaLiga must be believed.

This Sunday the members of the Barça club and the fans who have been able to get a ticket will say goodbye, with the League match against Mallorca, to the old Camp Nou, which will begin to be remodeled this summer and that will force the first team to exile to Montjuïc until November 2024. Subscribers who intend to take a souvenir of the stadium, even if it is their own seat, will have to go through the cashier. The memory is not free.

Thus, and as Barcelona has made official in the face of doubts raised by a social mass that intended to take over its piece of stadium, "the seats, grass and other elements that are part of the current stadium" can be acquired in a process that the Barça club has baptized as "circular economy". The Barça board, at least, offers its members "priority" and "a reduced price" in the purchase of such material compared to other collectors and interested parties.

The now called Spotify Camp Nou, visibly deteriorated despite the actions made by the board of Laporta so that the team could at least complete this season without putting its fans at risk (in the last game against Real Sociedad the flies invaded one of the cafeterias, and the services presented a deplorable aspect), He suffers his long life. In fact, it was inaugurated on September 24, 1957. But above all it pays for the inaction and difficulties with which the directives were encountering since the time of former president Josep Lluís Núñez to undertake a comprehensive remodeling of the stadium.

The financing of the Espai Barça has finally been approved with 20 investors lending 1,450 million euros, and with the Turkish construction company Limak as responsible for the work – "the only one of the competing companies that assumed the commitment to return to the Camp Nou in November 2024 and to conclude the work before June 2026", According to Laporta, Barça can only say goodbye to its old stadium. Next Monday, in fact, the act of beginning of the remodeling of the Camp Nou will take place with the laying of the first stone.

Barcelona plans to lose 55 million euros with its transfer to Montjuïc, despite the fact that in February the club defended that the loss would be 93 million. The Barça club expected to achieve that goal by charging the member a high cost (25% more expensive) for being able to occupy a seat at the Olympic Stadium of Montjuïc, a controversial decision that the club has had to rectify by reducing by 50% its expectations of charging the member. Only 27,385 subscribers will be able to attend Montjuïc, leaving out about 56,000.

"When we go three or four times to Montjuïc, we will discover that football does not look so bad," said Barcelona's institutional vice president, Elena Fort, who insisted that the Barça viability plan goes through the "readjustment of the budget of all areas, sports and non-sports."

For now, Barça will try to do business with chairs and pieces of grass. The shield, for now, remains in place.

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