Held the last official game of the football and consummate season the farewell of coexistence and rent (or not), in the bowels of the Olímpic Lluís Companys there were A toast. FC Barcelona and Barcelona of Serveis Municipals (BSM) certified the end of the two -year relationship that they have maintained with the ascension to the Mountain of the Barca club while the Spotify Camp Nou is remodeled.
The prospects are that Hansi Flick's team play again at home next year. “We have to do a pilot test and the Joan Gamper, which will be August 9 or 10, is a good test “, Joan Laporta explained on TV-3 this Monday night. The Clu will ask LaLiga to start the first days out of home, so that the last works are finished before the final return for the Champions League.
The Barça squad turns around to celebrate with the fans the three titles of the season at the end of the League match between FC Barcelona and Villarreal at the Lluís Companys stadium. / JORDI COTRINA / EPC
Profitable rental
He ends, or is about to finish, Barça's stay at the Olympic stadium now that everyone had taken the measures, from the team (three titles of four) to fans (the average assistance has increased); from the workers of the enclosure, to the agents of the Urban Guard.
The successful final leaves a program of satisfaction, much greater for the municipal company than for the club, which has had to load with all the criticisms and all the disadvantages of the transfer. BSM has obtained an extraordinary profitability of a disused installation, remodeled and modernized thanks to Barça's investment, and with the added income of restoration services to tourist prices; That is, high. Plus the payment of the plastic vessel for drinks.
Raphinha goal celebration during the Champions League match between FC Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund. / Jordi Cotrina
Concert Stadium
The club has spent More than 20 million euros for the temporary rent. Not only did the Canon set by the Consistory, but by the works and the adaptation of the old facilities to their needs. BSM did not have the stadium a day, relegated El Lluís Companys to concert headquarters. On August 9 he acts in Montjuïc, for example, Blackpink; Before, on July 30, the Kendrick Lamar and Sza show is scheduled, and on September 12 Post Malone is expected. Last summer it acted.
Barça has run with All expenses to condition the spaces For guests and Vips seats (a need to raise the price of tickets to several hundred euros), UEFA's requirements, the needs of the media, the locker room, the receptions, the Vips rooms …
David and José Muñoz, the Estapa components, before acting in the Olimpic Stadi in July 2024. / Mitrative hand / EPC
Additional charges
And yet, everything that was not written in the original rental contract, BSM has demanded an additional position. The team, for example, in two years has not trained a single day in the game rectangle except on the eve of the Gamper. So indicated date was on August 7, 2023. Not a press conference held at the stadium, as set by UEFA, except for visiting teams. Most either trained on the grass.
The club has not been able to The storm of April 29 last year, In Barça-Valencia, which consequently went down in history when registering the lowest assistance of the 52 games (24 and 28, respectively, in each season) that Barça de Xavi Hernández and Hansi Flick have played.
Images of the empty stands by the downpour before FC Barcelona-Valencia of the League 2023-24. / Valentine Enrich / SPO
Attendance upload
The increase of spectators corroborates the growing level of the equipment in goals and show. The average average influx has risen in 5,151 more people per game. In the same way that the record of each campaign has been similar (this year there have been one hundred more people in Barça-Madrid than in Barça-Paris Saint Germain of the previous one), the outstanding fact is that in the worst entry of this year there have been 9,356 more people. And not only that: in the previous year there were 11 games in which 40,000 spectators were not reached; In the current one, only Barça-Leganés (39,523).
Speed capacity
The official capacity, originally, was established in 49.472 personas, eliminated the localities of low or no visibility. It has been overcome eightfold, three in the last three meetings. They are the two visits of Madrid, five Champions games (Naples, Paris Saint Germain, Bayern, Borussia Dortmund and Inter) and the closing of the triplet with Villarreal.
Mosaic and reception to the Rolling Stones before the League Classic 2023-24 at the Lluís Companys stadium. / JORDI COTRINA / EPC
Discomfort plan
The club has always had to supervise the state of the facilities to avoid negative surprises even though it was the only tenant of the stadium and urge, for example, to the cleaning service to be strive in stands and interior areas.
The culé has already risen to the mountain in the face of the absolute lack of facilities, rather the opposite. The presentation of the exile plan hid an undercover increase in fertilizers, which was later rectified and cheaper with respect to the Camp Nou card.
Private transport accesses have been prevented until exaggeration -it is not prohibited to park in the mountain when there are concerts in Sant Jordi and when Barça plays -for not citing the daily armchair changes that have enraged the subscribers to the indifference of tourists who have come happy to enjoy the Barça Experience.
Fermín celebrates his goal, the last of Barça in Montjuïc, during the game against Villarreal. / JORDI COTRINA / EPC
Subscriber downturn
The downturn of the partners who processed the fertilizer already advanced the general rejection of the culé: There were 17,900 in the first campaign and 22,600 in the second SDE of the 80,000 of Camp Nou. An increase in part due to the promise of the Board of Joan Laporta that in the middle season would return to the stadium. The promise of November moved to January; later returned to December And then to February, even April and May To close the season in Les Corts.
After the toast, Barça proceeded on Monday to the eviction of all the belongings and objects that he has needed and used to paint the stadium and that Lluís Companys seemed his home. I shouldn't throw anything in case you have to go back.