Details have emerged regarding the changes that the City Council have asked AC Milan and Inter to make to their new stadium plans, a report claims.
Calciomercato.com report that the Milan Council have said yes to the two clubs for the new San Siro project to go ahead but it is a conditional yes. A majority voted in favour inside the Council, but divisions initially emerged within the majority and thus a number of issues are expected to be raised.
The City Council will ask that the new stadium has 70,000 seats, that ticket prices do not suffer an excessive increase, that the green areas constitute 50% of the entire renovated area and that the clubs invest a share of at least €40m for the redevelopment of the entire district.
Now it is up to the clubs to verify that the requested changes do not upset their €1.3bn budget. Inter and Milan have always worked on a stadium for 60-65,000 spectators so as not to raise construction costs too much.
The price of tickets, the clubs have always assured, will not increase. Instead the executive seats will and this should generate a larger slice of the overall stadium capacity, generating more revenues that way. On the green spaces, it has already risen to 36% from an initial 18% of the entire area.
thanks but no thanks
If that’s all the council asked then it’s not that bad. As long as it doesn’t take too long to start building, go for it.
Thinking the teams will get the go ahead now. However wouldnt put it past the city to have them hold off until after olympics and pay for San Siro updates for the opening ceremony.
Exactly. This is all a stall tactic. Continue to change requests, ask for more stuf…this will never pass. Italian politics is atrocious. Move on to Sesto or another 10 years will pass with nothing
And in the meantime a. how much will that cost? b. how much will it cost the clubs to delay starting construction? c. how much do these current changes cost? This what the clubs need to figure out. If it’s going to cost 100s of millions over the next 4-5 years then it’s cost prohibitive and not worth it. I would look to get guarantees from the council once these latest adjustments are made that there will be no further delays or surprise changes to the plan and that once this plan is approved construction can begin. If the guarantees don’t come then off to Sesto. 2026 will come and we still won’t have broken ground on the new stadium…