celeb news Report: Real Madrid moves football game for more Taylor Swift shows in Spain

[Feanor]

 

Real Madrid ask to move final La Liga fixture for Taylor Swift tour

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Real Madrid have filed a request to La Liga to move their final game of the season to enable more time to set up for Taylor Swift’s concert at the Bernabeu the following week. Madrid are set to play Real Betis on Sunday May 24 before Swift’s Madrid leg of The Eras Tour takes place on Thursday May 30.

 

The club have asked for the fixture to be moved to an earlier date, with Saturday May 23 in mind, to allow more time to prepare the stadium for the 34-year-old singer’s concert.

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Madrid are also attempting to find an additional date to host a second Swift concert in light of the interest they have received.

The Athletic

 

The most valuable football club in the world being willing to change their schedule, just so that Taylor Swift could potentially add a 2nd show at their stadium in Madrid, Spain…

Everyone wants to get as much out of the Eras Tour phenomenon as possible.

 

 

Edited February 28 by Feanor

[zuper]

That’s what we call impact. 

[BrandNewBrandon]

How every Taylor stan is reading this: "OMG, the most valuable football club in Europe has MOVED THEIR GAME because of Taylor because she's so huge1!!!!!"

 

How it actually reads: The most valuable club in Europe moved their date because it's in the same stadium that Taylor's concert is in and will be easier to organize each party's event if the workers at the aforementioned stadium have more time to prepare for two major events in the span of two weeks and would be the same for every other major artist playing one week before their game". 

Edited February 22 by BrandNewBrandon

[Feanor]

8 minutes ago, BrandNewBrandon said:

How every Taylor stan is reading this: "OMG, the most valuable football club in Europe has MOVED THEIR GAME because of Taylor because she's so huge1!!!!!"

 

How it actually reads: The most valuable club in Europe moved their date because it's in the same stadium that Taylor's concert is in and will be easier to organize each party's event if the workers at the aforementioned stadium have more time to prepare for two major events in the span of two weeks and would be the same for every other major artist playing one week before their game". 

Hopefully Lady Gaga will one day be able to book a show there too, so that we can judge and see if they'll try to make a 2nd show possible for her as well. The expectations have certainly been set now. 

 

[BtDecember]

9 minutes ago, BrandNewBrandon said:

How every Taylor stan is reading this: "OMG, the most valuable football club in Europe has MOVED THEIR GAME because of Taylor because she's so huge1!!!!!"

 

How it actually reads: The most valuable club in Europe moved their date because it's in the same stadium that Taylor's concert is in and will be easier to organize each party's event if the workers at the aforementioned stadium have more time to prepare for two major events in the span of two weeks and would be the same for every other major artist playing one week before their game". 

Why not both?

[BrandNewBrandon]

1 minute ago, BtDecember said:

Why not both?

Because it doesn't say they have moved their date because of Taylor's ticket sales which also would be stupid since that has nothing to do with the football game. 

[tiagol88]

I knew something was up for them to not have a second show in Spain. Even we have 2 shows here in Portugal.

[BrandNewBrandon]

13 minutes ago, Feanor said:

Hopefully Lady Gaga will one day be able to book a show there too, so that we can judge and see if they'll try to make a 2nd show possible for her as well. The expectations have certainly been set now. 

 

Well, given that both Harry Styles and Coldplay recently did more shows and sold more tickets than Taylor in Spain, I'm not entirely certain why you'd think other starlets couldn't. Even at two concerts in Spain, the popularity of Taylor's tour dates there are nothing noteworthy for it to be impossible for someone like Gaga to sell. 

Edited February 22 by BrandNewBrandon

[BrandNewBrandon]

It's quite interesting how Taylor's stans will spin this story into something it is not just to prove she's huge in Spain? All those years of calling her local has got to them 

[Feanor]

1 minute ago, BrandNewBrandon said:

Well, given that both Harry Styles and Coldplay recently did more shows and sold more tickets than her in Spain, I'm not entirely certain why you'd think other starlets couldn't. Even at two concerts in Spain, the popularity of Taylor's tour dates there are nothing noteworthy for it to be impossible for someone like Gaga to sell. 

Good to hear. We'll be expecting Gaga's multiple stadium shows in Spain then.

 

[BrandNewBrandon]

Just now, Dear Reader said:

Taylor could do 4 or more dates in Spain and they would all sell out, pls 

Well, you don't know that because she's not doing as many but good for her. The point is this thread is suggesting something that the article or the whole situation has nothing to do with. 

[tost1]

What is that ugly stadium??? 

[Feanor]

Just now, BrandNewBrandon said:

It's quite interesting how Taylor's stans will spin this story into something it is not just to prove she's huge in Spain? All those years of calling her local has got to them 

What story is being spun here?

As the article says, there are efforts being made to make another show possible and that's what this thread is about. You seem very bothered by this fact.

 

[Dear Reader]

Just now, BrandNewBrandon said:

Well, you don't know that because she's not doing as many but good for her. The point is this thread is suggesting something that the article or the whole situation has nothing to do with. 

I decided to hide my post because arguing with OTH after they have PROOF that she has way more demand that she can provide is useless. You can try to spin the article all you want, but at the end of the day this tour will go down as one of the most demanding tours ever. All you can do is suffer. 

[shyboi]

this is HUGE

 

a big slap in the face to all those soccer fans that claim some players are bigger than the taylor swift 

[BrandNewBrandon]

1 minute ago, Feanor said:

What story is being spun here?

As the article says, there are efforts being made to make another show possible and that's what this thread is about. You seem very bothered by this fact.

 

That's not what it says. It says they moved the date of their game to allow more time to prepare for Taylor's ONE show. THEN it is mentioned that the city is thinking about doing another show, nothing to do with the club. 

[Dear Reader]

2 minutes ago, BrandNewBrandon said:

Well, you don't know that because she's not doing as many but good for her. The point is this thread is suggesting something that the article or the whole situation has nothing to do with. 

Also, since you probably don’t know how to open the article and read, I copy and pasted this for you:

 

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The club have asked for the fixture to be moved to an earlier date, with Saturday May 23 in mind, to allow more time to prepare the stadium for the 34-year-old singer’s concert.

Madrid are also attempting to find an additional date to host a second Swift concert in light of the interest they have received.

 

[Headlock]

Not that user losing it already in yet another Taylor thread 

[Carry My Heart]

2 minutes ago, BrandNewBrandon said:

Well, you don't know that because she's not doing as many but good for her.

And yet her single concert in Spain saw over a million people sign up for the presale of that date alone 

[BrandNewBrandon]

Just now, Dear Reader said:

Also, since you probably don’t know how to open the article and read, I copy and pasted this for you:

 

 

You said she could easily do FOUR OR MORE extra shows to which you reply with a phrase she could do one more. Again, you do not know she could do four which also sounds as A LOT more. 

[Dear Reader]

Just now, BrandNewBrandon said:

You said she could easily do FOUR OR MORE extra shows to which you reply with a phrase she could do one more. Again, you do not know she could do four which also sounds as A LOT more. 

as someone has already pointed out to you, more than ONE MILLION people signed up for the pre-sale. You don’t think that’s enough for 4 dates on a 80k capacity stadium? seems like she could fit way more to me 

[Feanor]

1 minute ago, BrandNewBrandon said:

That's not what it says. It says they moved the date of their game to allow more time to prepare for Taylor's ONE show. THEN it is mentioned that the city is thinking about doing another show, nothing to do with the club. 

The "Madrid" mentioned in the article refers to the club Real Madrid, and not the city of Madrid, as evidenced here:

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Madrid are set to play Real Betis on Sunday May 24 before Swift’s Madrid leg of The Eras Tour takes place on Thursday May 30.

The club have asked for the fixture to be moved to an earlier date, with Saturday May 23 in mind, to allow more time to prepare the stadium for the 34-year-old singer’s concert. Madrid are also attempting to find an additional date to host a second Swift concert in light of the interest they have received.

…or here:

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Madrid would need to play their final league fixture at the same time as Girona and Betis would need to play at the same time as the other teams in contention to qualify for Europe in the interest of sporting fairness.

[BrandNewBrandon]

2 minutes ago, Headlock said:

Not that user losing it already in yet another Taylor thread 

Not my fault my ONE comment makes so many Swifties FUME  

[Dear Reader]

2 minutes ago, Headlock said:

Not that user losing it already in yet another Taylor thread 

working hard to be the top poster already  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: her haters are way more fans than myself. 

[BrandNewBrandon]

2 minutes ago, Dear Reader said:

as someone has already pointed out to you, more than ONE MILLION people signed up for the pre-sale. You don’t think that’s enough for 4 dates on a 80k capacity stadium? seems like she could fit way more to me 

Ok, thanks for clarifying. Maybe she indeed could. Still, the OP suggested something that was not the case. 

Edited February 22 by BrandNewBrandon