Barcelona will play the 2023/24 season at the Olympic Stadium in Montjuic after announcing plans to redevelop the Nou Camp.
Work, costing up to 1.5billion euros (£1.26billion), will begin this summer and is expected to be completed at the end of the 2025/26 season.
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Initial focus of the redevelopment of the famous stadium will be on the first and second tier as well as improving technological facilities and upgrades to the exterior.
The third tier will be rebuilt in the summer of 2023, which will mean Barca play their home games for the following season at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys – the home of the 1992 Olympics.
They are due to return to the Nou Camp for the 2024/25 campaign, but at a 50 per cent capacity.
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Barca are currently second in La Liga after finding some form under Xavi Hernandez.
They are 15 points behind arch-rivals Real Madrid – who are one point away from clinching the Spanish league title.
Elsewhere, Arsenal will reportedly ‘ask for €10m’ to sell defender Hector Bellerin to Real Betis this summer.
Following a spell at Barcelona, Bellerin joined the Gunners in 2011. He made his senior debut for the Premier League club in the Champions League in 2014.
The 27-year-old established himself as a regular from 2014/15 onwards. He has played just short of 250 times for Arsenal across all competitions.
The Spaniard joined Real Betis on loan last summer. He has been a consistent performer for the Spanish side, starting 21 times in La Liga.
Sport report that Betis are ‘very happy’ with Bellerin and they are planning to ‘make an effort’ to keep him beyond this campaign.
Arsenal are understood to have ‘already entered talks’ to make the right-back’s exit permanent. They are expected to ‘ask for €10m’ this…
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