I am absolutely convinced that the dream of football leaders is that no one goes to the stadiums. The fans make up barely 10% of the income of the big clubs and they are becoming more demanding, as if they felt like the owners of the teams. Most of the five-star clubs are owned by states or billionaires, whose front men laugh in private when they hear the fans ask for their resignation when the results are not good.
Among the big teams are Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, which are members. But the whites are quite similar to the state clubs: you just have to see the political, economic and judicial power of their box. And they also have an owner who makes all the decisions.
At Barça, the desperate economic situation made the members vote for Joan Laporta in a fit of nostalgia. The melancholic loop has these things: when the present assaults us, we take refuge in the past. That is why we also want Messi to return.
I always thought that there would be a day when subscribers would be replaced by cut-outs with our faces. Do you remember the stadiums tuned by technology during the covid? But the AI now allows us to have a holography of ourselves in the stadium, while we follow the game at home with virtual reality glasses.
Does it make sense that Barça played yesterday at ten o'clock at night on a weekday? But the televisions, which pay for the bulk of the party, want distant markets to be able to watch European club matches at prime time, so they rule.
The latest proof of all this is that, given the fact that the 80,000 subscribers of FC Barcelona do not fit in the 49,000 seats at the Lluís Companys stadium, the board has frozen the subscriptions and has increased the price of the seats by 50%. The directive Elena Fort clarified it in her own way: There is no increase, it is a different product (?). With how easy it would have been to say that they were doing it for our good, since the Olympic Stadium is difficult to access and the wind that blows could leave some old season ticket holders like little birds.
