Barcelona are still licking their wounds from Lionel Messi's painful departure to Paris Saint-Germain and it seems that fans have little enthusiasm for the new season without their greatest ever player. Fans are so disinterested for the new campaign that only 15,820 fans applied for tickets for Sunday's first home game of the LaLiga season against Real Sociedad, only half of the 30,000 seats made available. Barcelona fans are showing little excitement for the upcoming season without Lionel MessiOnly 15,820 fans applied for tickets for the first game of the season against Real SociedadBarca's last competitive game in front of fans was in fact also against Real Sociedad, on March 7, 2020, when Messi scored a late penalty in a 1-0 win. One of the most striking images since Messi left was the sight of the Argentine's picture being removed from the front of the Nou Camp. And the lack of excitement for the new campaign is being seen as a sign of fans' pain about letting Messi go.

Source: Daily Mail August 13, 2021 08:24 UTC