AC Milan and Inter’s mission to build a new stadium has had countless obstacles along the way, and another big one has presented itself.
After years of working towards a solution for their new stadium headache, both Milan and Inter thought they had found one. The two clubs agreed a deal to purchase the current San Siro and land around it for €197m, which is the first step in a development that will see a new home built.
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More opposition arrives
As Calcio e Finanza report, Fratelli d’Italia – the political party of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the main opposition party in the city of Milan – have presented a motion to annul the sale of San Siro and they have demand that the Mayor Giuseppe Sala leaves.
The part presented a motion during yesterday’s City Council meeting asking Sala to annul the resolution passed by the Council last September that approved the sale of the San Siro, by virtue of the investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office into the procedure adopted.
The motion, which is expected to be debated in the Chamber within about 10 days, was presented during a press conference attended by several councillors and the city co-ordinator, Simone Orlandi. Orlandi continued to press for Sala’s resignation as mayor.
Despite being in opposition with Fratelli d’Italia, Forza Italia councillor Alessandro De Chirico has already made it known that he will not support the motion, which was in fact signed exclusively by Fratelli d’Italia.
The Lega party – which did not sign it – has nevertheless declared itself in line with the proposal, as leader Riccardo Truppo confirmed: “We ask the mayor to reformulate the proposed resolution to submit to the council a proposal that would self-regulate the transfer resolution.
“We’re not saying no to a new stadium, but the motion is necessary in light of the potentially immense damage the city risks suffering from legal developments and because the sale was born under the worst possible conditions, both methodologically and substantively, thus provoking criticism even within the majority itself.
“This is an opportunity to repair what we believe to be a damage, and we also urge the majority to sign the motion.”
The Devine Comedy at full play as we get dragged through Purgatory and the 9th circles of Hell until we hopefully one day ends up lead to Heaven.
If this is gonna keep on for much longer those people at charge of the country is gonna get a lesson they wont soon forget and that is that Italy wont be allowed to be co-hosts of the 2032 European Championship and rightfully so.
UEFA is already considering doing that
Seems plausible that it might happen.
Its like they want to kill Italian football. Every top team in every top league in Europe can build a new stadium with ease, even mid tier teams as well. But in Italy it seems impossible because the cities all own the stadiums (what is it, like 4 italian clubs that own their own stadiums?)
Juve managed to build a new and Atalanta rebuild theirs after buying it for 8.6 million. Thats it
Milan and Inter should just have left San Siro and let the city sit there with it empty, costing money, and build their own stadiums.
I hope the San Siro deal gets annulled and Milan is “forced” to build a new Stadium of their own in San Donato.
Own stadium = more money
I can understand it when or if there are some ancient architecture to take into consideration but otherwise it really shouldn’t be so troublesome to build one.
San Donato is in the vicinity of Milano but you can’t just reallocate clubs to completely different cities like for example it is seen with for example NFL teams so there is some limits which I do find perfectly reasonable as the clubs often has long standing histories compared to the more franchise approach of USA. If such moves and recreations of new clubs happened here in Europe the owners and the lawmakers better prefer themselves for a small civil war with casualties at risk.
I really doesn’t hope it gets annulled as its better that it stays in the San Siro area.
Sure but it also cost more and is more expensive to operate. Ideally though I agree and we did own our own stadium as we did with San Siro in the late 1920ies and 30ies.
They arent relocating thou. San Donato is still Milan and metro line 3 go there. There is 12 metro stops from the Central station to San Siro, 13 to San Donato. Hardly comparable to USA sports clubs moving 6-8 time zones.
And they can just do what they did at San Siro and add one more metro stop near the new stadium if the current one isnt not close enough (after all for countless years we walked 20 min from Lotto M to the stadium).
I didnt see any protests from fans when they bought the land in San Donato and initially planned for their own stadium there.
For two big clubs like Milan and Inter to again share a stadium is pathetic and small club mentality.
Would United/City, Liverpool/Everton, any of the London clubs, Atletico/Real, Barca/Espanyol, Sevilla/Betis and many others even entertain the idea of a shared stadium? Of course not.
Neither Milano club will be able to bridge the financial gap to English clubs or top German and Spanish clubs with a shared stadium.
Then add in a field that will be sh*t and unplayable half the year because there is 2 games there every week during european cups weeks instead of 1 every other week, the trouble of scheduling games because you have to clubs one pitch to plan for, so its always done last minute, and hard as f*ck for fans who travel in for the games to plan ahead etc.
The -only- upside of a shared stadium is that the initial investment is smaller, but on the other hand the profit over time will be twice as big.
Yeah I get that and also why I said it was in the vicinity of Milano. As such I doesn’t oppose it but I definitely prefer us staying in San Siro.
I meant more allocating like they do in USA buys a franchise and moves it maybe to a diferent state and renames it. That can’t happen in Europe any longer. It happened to Wimbledon that was moved from London to Milton Keynes 80 kilometer away and then renamed it M.K Dons. Law was then made so it wouldn’t happen again.
As I said I prefer us owning our own stadium as we did originally there are nevertheless variables to consider.
Probably still couldn’t even if we did own our own stadium.
I would argue the operating of it is also half if shared but I get your point.
100%. Let them go to San Donato or Rozzano (who’s mayor has once again offered BOTH clubs the options to build the stadium). Let San Siro then become an empty 80,000 drain on Milano and the Italian state so they can learn their lesson.
Back to San Donato it is, I guess.