Camp Nou

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Joan Laporta: “I believe we will get the Phase 1C permit (60.000 capacity) by the end of this year. The stadium will be fully completed with full capacity (105.000) by the end of 2026. The roof will need about 3½ months to be lifted. We have to find the right moment to do that without disrupting the team during the season, and we’ll decide later when it’s best. But full capacity (105.000), unless something unexpected happens, should be ready by the end of 2026.”

He should just stop talking about long term timelines...
Stadium is so advanced now .. while would they need 14 months for full capacity ? (End of 26). Pre fabricated Stands are getting installed very rapidly nowadays and most superpillars are concreted from bottom to top ! Do interior works need 14 months 🤔
 

Windhook

Well-known member
The distance between the stands and the pitch has increased, hasn’t it?
And there are two gaps behind the end stand now as well.
I dont like it.
Looks slightly increased, yes.
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There's also this higher wall which in broadcast creates the two tier adboard effect. That has more bugged me, reminds me of those elevated German stadia, where there's a 5-10m pit dividing the stands and the pitch. But I'll get used to it.
 

Don Juan Laporta Estruch

Basta yaaaaaaa, Cabron ! y Bona nit 🥂
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.
 

Loki

Well-known member
There's also this higher wall which in broadcast creates the two tier adboard effect.
Most of the stadiums have it by now, as it brings more ad revenue, because it's now way more difficult to ignore. It was only a matter of time until we have it too.
 

Loki

Well-known member
Agree with the OP, looks bad
Of course it's shit for the viewers, because it's impossible now to ignore such a big screen flashing in the background, even if you focus only on the ball.

I hope the club shifts back to normal layout
No chance of that happening in my opinion. Most stadiums in Europe have it now too. It's too lucrative for the clubs, especially for our broke ass club.
 

Andresito

Senior Member
Staff member
No way lol. We also going to stop having sponsor on kit? Doesn't work like that

Just adapt as a viewer, just like when static adboards changed to digital moving ads.
 

TheStig

Member
Of course it's nice that we are back to Camp Nou but it's sad to see that fans still aren't allowed in and that everything in the stadium looks optimised for ads. Those huge double banners look awful but what can you expect from a sold out club like ours. They literally move the stands away from the pitch so they can install those banners. You can't even see the stands most of the game.

Regular fans were better than in Montjuic but still shit without orginised fans leading the chants. It was probably a little bit better because of the special occasion, it's gonna be a funeral again very soon.
 
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