AC Milan’s pursuit of a new stadium has generated quite a lot of back and forth in the media, and the latest clash is between Giuseppe Sala and Barbara Berlusconi.
Berlusconi was always in favour of building a new stadium, as she and the club unveiled plans to build a 48,000-capacity home in time for the 2018-19 campaign all the way back in July 2015, but it never materialised.
It has been made clear over the past few weeks and months that Milan intend to build their new home in San Donato, something their Mayor confirmed, but as a response the City Council launched their own project.
The €300m project for the renovation of San Siro was presented one week ago, in what is a bid to keep both AC Milan and Inter at the iconic stadium for a while longer yet.
Calciomercato.com has relayed the media bickering between Barbara Berlusconi – the daughter of Silvio and fformer vice-president of Milan – and the city Mayor Beppe Sala.
“The proposal to redevelop San Siro is another way of doing nothing. The project seems generic and far-fetched to me. From the in-depth studies that we at Milan had done, it costs less to do a new one,” she said.
“The estimate for the works at 300 million euros is too low and not credible. Real Madrid will spend much more than a billion euros to renovate the Bernabeu, with costs almost double compared to forecasts.”
Sala’s response: “But what does Barbara Berlusconi know? Everyone can have their say, but what does she know? Let’s let those who know how to work work.
“Not even I am able to make an assessment, but if now everyone has their say… come on!
“Next week there could be a meeting with the two clubs, with whom we have already spoken on the phone. For them it is essential to be able to do the work without leaving San Siro, this is the real issue.
“Until this point is clarified, I do not want to be either an optimist or a pessimist. If it became clear that the work could be done, at that point I would become optimistic. I don’t think the teams are negative about the idea of staying at the Meazza.”
