This week I visited @PBSantpedor along with penyes from Bages, Berguedà and Cerdanya.
When you spend time with penyes, you truly understand what Barça is: people who live it every day, who have kept it alive generation after generation.
The penyes and the members are much more than supporters:
you are memory, identity, and commitment;
you are the ones who fill the stadiums, who organise trips, who cheer when things go well and, above all, when they do not go so well.
Without this human network, Barça would not be what it is.
We talked about many shared concerns:
the role the penyes have had and must continue to have,
the lack of clarity around the entire Camp Nou process,
the delays and difficulties in obtaining tickets,
and the challenge of getting more young people involved and living Barça with the same intensity as those who have followed it for decades.
There were also questions addressed in Jordi Mercader’s financial study:
what the inheritance that the club has sold actually meant,
what permits existed for advancing the Espai Barça works…
Topics that directly affect the future of the club you love and have defended your whole lives.
Barça needs to return to a way of doing things that is serious, transparent, and consistent with its identity.
And this will only be possible if the penyes and the members are informed, respected, and heard — and if we all demand the standards that this crest deserves.
Thank you to PB Santpedor for the warmth and for reminding us, once again, that Barça’s strength is born from its penyes, its members, and all its people.
