Every year Barcelona finds a new low. Over the past decade I’ve gone from being a fan to “I like them but no longer excited to watch their matches” to almost completely losing interest.
I really believed in “Mes que un club” back in the day, but now they’re run like a typical Southern European scam company that the rest of the population has to warn foreigners about. This is shady taxi driver behavior expanded to a larger scale. I’d be so embarrassed if I was Catalan
At least from what I’ve heard from my cousins living in Spain and what I’ve read on Barca Reddit, many fans feel that the club is doing Frenkie dirty, and most people don’t want Frenkie to leave. It seems like the members who behave like ultra nationalists are the ones who think the club/Laporta can do no wrong, and despite what they’re claiming now, they were 100% backing Bartomeu’s decisions during his term.
hate repeating myself over and over, but when I saw the disgusting conditions of Camp Nou when I visited a few years ago, I knew it was not the same club I grew up watching and visiting. At least up to 2010ish, I remember the stadium being old but impressive and pristine. You felt like you were in a historic monument and were about to see something special.
Recently…Maggots, mud, sunflower seeds, and garbage everywhere before the match had even started. I was embarrassed to take my friends there after hyping it up and having them drop $200+ for seats. That type of “we’re going to renovate in a decade, who cares” is not something a serious club that takes pride in its history and culture would ever allow, and when Barca end up in the news every few months for some scumbag behavior, I’m not even surprised. They stopped caring a loooong time ago, so why should I care?
