Barcelona has confirmed the news that this week had been reported on a large scale: the Blaugrana will not organize the Joan Gamper -Trophy in Camp Nou. Their heavily delayed construction of the stadium is due to organizing its first LA Liga match in the weekend of 14 September, less than two months away.
This week the Catalan giants received the first of two licenses needed to organize games in Spotify Camp Nou, but the latest update is that they still have to complete the request for the second. The Blaugrana needed that license to host the gamper in Camp Nou this week, to give them the time to prepare for the competition, but now Barcelona has announced that it will not take place in Camp Nou.
Barcelona had announced that the collision would involve the Italian side como and would take place on 10 August, but now the club says that the competition is being organized in the Estadi Johan Cruyff. The location is in the Barcelona training complex and has only 6,000 fans, ten times less than the initially planned 60,000 that would return to Camp Nou.
Moreover, RAC1 says that UEFA has their doubts that Barcelona can organize their Champions League group phase competitions in Camp Nou. They asked that their first competition, completed for the 16 to 18 September – days after their first proposed League match in Camp Nou.
Although it was originally reported that Barcelona should organize a competition in Camp Nou to ratify that VIP chairs are rented for € 100 million for 30 years. In this way, Auditors Crowe can take the sale of the product on the Barcelona accounts, which adds a huge amount to their salary limit.