Milan are increasingly likely to forge ahead with their own project to build a new stadium in the Sesto San Giovanni area, after 3,000 amendments were requested to the joint Inter plan.
For several years now, Milan and Inter have been pushing the local authorities to let them either completely reconstruct the current Stadio Giuseppe Meazza or knock it down and build a brand new arena right next to it in the San Siro area of the city.
However, the arrival of RedBird as the new owners of Milan is changing the situation and they are eager to invest in a project that can be built quickly, even if that means doing it without neighbours Inter.
There have already been stern warnings that if the Milan council cannot get their act together and approve a way forward for the stadium, the club is prepared to go to the hinterland and Sesto San Giovanni instead.
According to the Corriere della Sera, that is increasingly likely, because the local authorities are again trying to slow down the process of even getting a public debate going for the project, requesting close to 3,000 amendments to the latest version of the proposal.
Mayor of Milan Beppe Sala is eager to get it done, but his fellow council members are certainly not, with many of them determined to put up as many roadblocks as possible.
Milan and Inter currently rent out the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza for circa €20m per season, meaning they also do not get the full benefits of revenue that a self-owned stadium would provide.
It’s now reported that RedBird founding member Gerry Cardinale visited Sesto San Giovanni Mayor Roberto Di Stefano earlier this week to discuss the potential of building Milan’s own stadium there.
3000 emendamenti fanno slittare il dibattito pubblico per #SanSiro: ecco perché il #Milan valuta lo stadio a Sesto https://t.co/dvonsiFpd1 pic.twitter.com/RHVsCvopzY
— calciomercato.com (@cmdotcom) June 2, 2022
The right thing to do. No Inter, just us. Run it as we like, maintain it as we like, all the revenues to ourselves.
Next year when they finish sixth in the league, they’ll go back begging to join inter
Again, Sesto is hardly the hinterland. Good move
Good move from aN inter fan this is what big boys do enough with this provincial backwater bs of one stadium for two teams
Lol
Nobody wants to have anything to do with snakes.
Music to my ears. Just get the attendance right. Milan would need at least a 70,000 seats stadium.
Best thing to go get your own stadium. Also it would be about time.
At least 70,000? Have you seen their attendances?
@Interista: How come we join Inter when you will finish in the relegation zone?
id luv to see the san siro renovated like the santiago bernabeu
San Siro will take over 200M to 300M to renovate. Their facilities are dreadful. Inter will need to do all that and still not own the stadium 🤣
Inter can spend all they want to renovate. The San Siro won’t belong to them still. 🤣