Mayor Beppe Sala has confirmed that he is hoping to keep AC Milan and Inter at the San Siro by putting forward a renovation plan.
The Milanese edition of La Repubblica (via PianetaMilan) reported yesterday that a renovation project for San Siro will be presented on January 31st which will cost €300m and which would not force the two teams to find a new place to play during the time in which the works are ongoing.
It is a proposal which was signed by the Arco Associati studio and which was presented to Mayor Sala by the opposition. It includes a 75,000-seater stadium, thus ensuring the capacity remains fairly consistent, and the area around the stadium would become greener too.
Now, Sala has given a comment to the same newspaper and he confirmed that the idea is to try and convince the two teams to stay with their new proposal. His comments were relayed by MilanNews.
“Our number one objective is to try to protect San Siro and its historicity. We do not pretend that this is something that can be shared immediately but the spirit of that commission and of the work that will follow will be that to convince the teams to re-evaluate this hypothesis,” he said.
“If there is a solution that allows them to continue playing, perhaps losing very little capacity, it should be examined with great interest.”
As a reminder, Milan’s plan is to build in San Donato which is in the south-east of the city, and we gave an update on our Substack late last year.
