Workers sleeping on chairs. A single man lazily spreading gravel on the playing field. Stillness on the stands. Scenes from the Camp Nou construction site, captured by a youtuber, circulated the Spanish media before unexpectedly disappearing from the internet.

Three man working, dozens watching

Thanks to our connections in the club's structure, we are entering the Camp Nou construction site, reveals the Belarusian youtuber Vlad Rymashevskiy - mistakenly described by Spanish media as a Pole - who publishes his footage on the BarcaStory channel. Although the 26-minute video published on Friday included four minutes of footage of work at Barcelona's stadium, the fragment was cut out after less than 24 hours. Only the quoted statement was preserved, after which we suddenly move to the club shop. In our Saturday video on the YouTube channel (StadiumDB.com), we’ll show deleted footage.

The captured scenes portrayed the efforts of the contractor, the Turkish company Limak, in an unfavourable light. Although delays are already counted in months, and Barca had to once again extend their lease at Montjuïc, there is hardly any movement on the construction site. Some men were working - one was pouring gravel onto the playing area, another was cleaning the dust with a blower and a third was nailing wooden pieces together with a hammer - but the vast majority were resting, sitting or lying on the chairs.

There is a possibility that the youtuber hit a break in the work - a lunchtime break, for example - but the disappearance of the scenes rather than the appearance of a club or contractor statement explaining the situation raises doubts about the veracity of this thesis.

© FC Barcelona | After further delays to the work at Camp Nou, Barcelona doesn’t give anymore an expected date for the return to their stadium.