Messi’s departure leaves Nou Camp empty for their La Liga opener
The 6-time Ballon d’Or winner had an exceptional career at the club he spent 17 years of his senior career with, Barcelona, the Argentine controversially joined Paris Saint-Germain as a free agent this summer.
, Lionel Messi’s representatives and the Blaugrana board had reached an agreement over a new deal. However, the Catalan club announced that because of economic and structural obstacles, the Barca icon will leave the club this summer. Resulting in
the Argentine joining his former Barcelona team-mate Neymar at PSG.
Now according to
Diario AS, with the brief lift of Covid stadium regulations, Barcelona could have 29,803 supporters inside Camp Nou for their La Liga opener with Real Sociedad on Sunday.
However, only 15,820 of those tickets have been ordered, leaving just over 13,000 available for general sale.
There reportedly will be concerns that the departure of Messi will leave a gap in fans demands the Spanish holiday season and Covid-pandemic can’t completely justify the Catalan giants’ inability to sell out their opening game.
Yesterday,
La Liga president Tebas claimed Barca could well have kept hold of Messiif they had signed up to the proposed €2.7billion cash injection.
"I don't know exactly what Barca are doing to lower their wage-bill — with the CVC money they would have had around €40m more,"
Tebas said.
"It could have been for Messi, or others, to make a more competitive squad. We are hurt by Messi leaving, for sure, but there is no clause in any TV deal which sees us get less money without Messi, although it could hurt companies who are looking to add subscribers and fans of the biggest clubs.
"In LaLiga we've always wanted to have the best players but then Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar left and Messi has now left.
"I'd say it's probably been quite traumatic because for a whole month the president of Barcelona kept saying everything was going well and all of a sudden, one afternoon, the whole transaction went down.
"So it's a real shame that Messi has left but we've worked a lot to ensure our value in broadcasting rights doesn't go down.
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