An absolute disaster.
A calamity.
It makes you think that indeed they are trying to make the stadium as quiet as possible.
To have the fans singing the anthem when the team walks out was one of the iconic things of the old Camp Nou. But what did they choose to do? Have all the fans drowned out by a girls choir singing it? It sounded atrocious and I'm not quite sure why they are obsessed with emasculating and transgendering the whole Camp Nou experience.
The one time where you can guarantee the fans will be loud is when the team scores a goal. So what do they decide to do? Drown them out aswell with some monstrositous tin bashing over an already too loud tannoy system. So much so that some fans were booing this frankly ludicrous idea already.
Raphinha is about to come on. You can tell the fans love him and he is going to get a huge cheer. So what do they do? The moment he is coming on to receive his cheer, the stadium announcer decides is the perfect time to announce his substitution over the tannoy system to completely drown out the fans cheering. Why not wait a few seconds?
Socios are already selling their tickets to away fans. You've had nearly 3 years to put in procedures to make sure this can't happen. So why were there 2 Bilbao fans in Bilbao kits in the home end, IN THE FIRST GAME???
The fans also seem further away from the pitch. I feared this when seeing the construction. Now, we have just come from the Montjuic where it is impossible to create a loud atmosphere BECAUSE THE FANS ARE SO FAR AWAY FROM THE PITCH. So why would you do that to your new stadium, when every other new stadium design in world football they are making the fans closer to the pitch??
The stadium already feels hollow, far too quiet, zero intimidation, and I'm not sure even a ' animacion' section can save it.
What is the point of building a stadium that is going to be quieter than your old one? I guess it looks pretty, but real football fans ain't watching to see some pretty red and blue lights, or a top of the range dressing room.
The whole thing is a humungous L, for me.