Milan Mayor Beppe Sala claims Inter and Milan are free to consider alternative options for their new stadium.
A project to build Milan and Inter’s new home in the area of San Siro in 2027 had been approved at the end of 2021, and Sala believes the plan is still up and running. On Tuesday, Milan’s Mayor posted the picture of a document signed by representatives of both clubs where they confirm they are committed to the project.
It came as an answer to a report of La Gazzetta dello Sport that claimed Milan and Inter were ready to consider alternative options, including moving out of Milan, to the city of Sesto San Giovanni.
Milan and Inter warn they are ‘open to other’ stadium options
“With regards to the project of a new stadium for Milan, FC Internazionale and AC Milan wish to clarify that they are continuing a constructive dialogue with the local authorities to prepare a dossier that can be used in the public debate, so we can hope to accelerate the process to create a new San Siro, within a wider masterplan to requalify the area dedicated to sport and entertainment,” the clubs said in an official statement yesterday
“For both clubs the creation of a new stadium remains an absolute priority, having the certainty of the timing for the authorisation, remaining open to other options if there were not the right conditions to build a new stadium at San Siro as originally planned.”
The Mayor of Sesto San Giovanni has confirmed that he already has a plan to build the stadium outside Milan and Sala released a new interview about the matter on Wednesday morning.
“I am convinced that the stadium must be built respecting the rules,” he told journalists, as quoted by La Gazzetta dello Sport.
“I don’t event the public debate. It’s something real. That being said, I don’t think I’ve ever said the stadium won’t be built.
“If the clubs have other options, they are free to consider them. We are not going to stop and have no doubts.”
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— La Gazzetta dello Sport (@Gazzetta_it) March 30, 2022
He spends more time doing interviews and attending gala’s than his day job, every month there is a new hoop to jump through for the clubs and every month we don’t have the new stadium is a month of lost revenues for the clubs and an extra month of revenues for his red tape and expensive lunches
only in Italy. And they wonder they couldn’t join other top teams in WC in 8 years.
Sad!
Only in Italy. As with Roma and others, this project will be stuck in perpetuity. You’ll see the occasional piece of news giving hope, only to be followed by several years of silence and the loop to continue. It seems unlikely that many of us will see this completed in our lifetimes.
These bureaucrats really are Italy’s worst enemy, holding the great nation and its people back at every turn.
In every other European country it would have been built by now. The mayor is only interested in brown envelopes for himself. Allegedly.
@ Bruno
Yep spot on. Couldn’t have said it better. The sheer blindsided, backwards mentality of these fat cat bureaucrats is absolutely astounding.
Us fans that love Serie A will just continue to watch our beloved calcio slowly erode and become a bygone era all because the pinnacle of the Italian FA are adverse to change.
A sad state of affairs that doesn’t seem it will ever change.
@Bruno and Dan, and yet “the people” keep electing fat cat bureaucrats. There is plenty of local opposition to the stadium actually. Just like there was when Milan was close to building their own in the Portello district in 2015. You can’t dig a fence post hole in Italy because everything is part of the patrimony. You may be digging up an ancient Roman latrine.
@Dan
FA has not much to do with this. It is bureaucray at its finest. Italy tries to sell as a modern country, yet they are in the caves in these aspects. Painful to watch, indeed
Two word solution…here me out…Space Stadium.
*hear!