**** me they are thinking of leaving their 100,000 capacity stadium for the sake of one with 5,000 extra seats and a roof. This has got to be some kind of tax scam. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25317998
Don't worry, I'll do it How much are their average ticket prices? 5,646 extra tickets x season ticket price...? 5,646 extra tickets x ticket price x 19 games...?
The season tickets are ~£200 so you're looking at an extra million or so a year. Barcelona player salaries cost over £130 million a year.
seems silly to me, in an unstable climate they should just concentrate on keep wining things on the pitch, and when the climate changes be in a position to better capitalize on it. ffs 100,000 seats not enough anyway. this would put unnecessary pressure on them to perform at the top level ie title and CL year on year to pay off what i think would be unnecessary costs, they need to replace Iniesta and Xavi for a start,(cost?) which is the main heart beat of that team along with Messi obviously. wonder if football will ever go the same way the olympics have gone in various countries and just end up with a lot of empty huge stadiums as the cost is too high, and the toffs will get bored soon enough.
One thing I would say is one theory on getting out of a dip is to invest through spending, usually public, particularly through building projects. There are about 50 trades, consultants and suppliers who would no doubt benefit from the work, in turn spending the money they earn and thus distributing wealth. We'll end up paying for it through the EU as we often do for Spain's project's, but this shouldn't be seen as entirely negative, although being Spain its probably bent.
That makes sense if providing something of value to the country such as the Hoover Dam or a road network, but replacing a 100,000 seat stadium with a 105,000 seat stadium is just busywork. Of course all the essential services have now been so raped by privatisation that if you offered a work scheme to improve them the CEOs would just funnel all the resources into private bonuses, which would just make the situation even worse.
Why do they need a stadium with a roof on it? In America the only places that have stadiums with domes are places where it's either, ridiculously cold, or ridiculous hot and humid. Barcelona is neither.
