{"id":68846,"date":"2026-08-10T21:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/68846\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:24:12","slug":"setback-threatens-barcelonas-preparations-for-the-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/68846\/","title":{"rendered":"Setback threatens Barcelona’s preparations for the new season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona’s build-up to the new season has thrown up more problems than anyone expected.<\/p>\n

The Catalan side have already scrapped their friendly against Preston North End during their camp in England, after the English side proposed fielding their reserves because of a lengthy injury list.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A second blow landed a few days later. The friendly scheduled for 15 August in Morocco fell through.<\/p>\n

Scrambling for an alternative, Barcelona found one in Basel, their new opponents this Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sport newspaper<\/a> reported: “Just when it seemed that the fixture schedule had returned to its normal course, a new problem emerged linked to the Basel friendly.”<\/p>\n

Barcelona’s visit to St. Jakob-Park has sparked such enormous interest that the Swiss club’s ticket sales system buckled under the strain, forcing them into a decisive call.<\/p>\n

Basel announced on Monday that they had temporarily suspended the general sale of tickets for the friendly against Barcelona.<\/p>\n

Their servers simply could not handle the flood of requests over the last few hours, the club explained, with demand hitting exceptional levels.<\/p>\n

Fans repeatedly refreshing the page bombarded the club’s servers with requests running into the hundreds of millions, according to Basel’s statement.<\/p>\n

The club spent the afternoon trying to boost capacity bit by bit so the sale could carry on, but those measures fell short.<\/p>\n

Faced with that, Basel pulled the plug on the process to reopen it with far greater resources and capacity. Ticket sales will resume on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Sales will run exclusively through the club’s online platform. Basel warned they would not be able to handle requests submitted by phone, email, social media or any other channel.<\/p>\n

None of this threatens the match itself. Barcelona still intend to visit St. Jakob-Park this Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona’s build-up to the new season has thrown up more problems than anyone expected. The Catalan side have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,26803,27050,23952,85],"class_list":["post-68846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-basel","tag-basel-vs-barcelona","tag-club-friendlies","tag-laliga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}