It feels like a twist is never far away when it comes to the new stadium project, and now there has been another development.
Il Giorno (via Calciomercato.com) reports this morning that another shock has arrived on the San Siro front for Inter and Milan and it comes in the form of an appeal against the sale of the current stadium to the clubs, a vital part of the plans.
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The ‘Sì Meazza’ committee of Luigi Corbani, the promoters of the referendum and a network of Milanese committees and entities have presented a new appeal to the Court of Appeal for Lombardy to try to block the sale.
Details of the appeal
According to the appellants, the restriction on the demolition of the second tier of San Siro has already been triggered as the 70-year threshold has already passed, despite the talk that it would actually be later this summer.
Il Giorno relays the details: “The indication of the date of 10 November 2025 for the effective date of the architectural constraint on the second tier of the stadium ‘is incorrect, arbitrary, unjustified and also contained in an opinion of the Superintendency which does not express a definitive judgement on the point and, indeed, recalls contradictory data.
“In fact, there is historical evidence of the fact that the structure was progressively existing and even used from the end of 1954 and, even more so, in June/July 1955′. The restriction is therefore ‘reasonably already in force’.”
If all this were true, Inter and Milan could only purchase the structures that have not yet turned 70, or 23.15% of the second tier. The request is to ‘precautionarily suspend the documents at the centre of the appeal and, evaluating the merits, declare them null and void’.
I sincerely hope San Siro project fails spectacularly, so we can get rid of Scaroni, the investigation by the prosecutors office that HE (probably) tipped off to begin with, and the club could finally be sold to someone who gives a **** about the sporting project of this club.
The sporting project of a club is tied to Milan owning a stadium.
No serious owner wants to invest in serie A for that reason.
Milan and Inter are top 10 clubs in history of football, play in the same city, share an ancient stadium that they don’t even own but they pay rent for it.
You will hardly find another 2 big clubs around Europe that share a stadium that they don’t even own.
Barcelona and Espanyol don’t play on the same stadium, neither are Real and Atletico Madrid.
Bayern and 1860 Munich co owned their stadium until Bayern moved to their new stadium.
A third of the EPL are clubs from London and they all have their separate stadium that they own.
If people think that some rich person or corporations will come and just invest money into Milan without making any you haven’t been paying attention.
Serie A is a money pit.
Perfect example:
Italian FootballTVo@….4d
Inter made the most TV money of any Serie A team last season… It was still €50M less than lowest earning team in the Premier League
Inter €81.4 M
Southampton €130M.
BTW, Southampton got relegated
People are still stuck on stupid thinking that these are the times of Berlusconi, Moratti, Cragnotti, Agnelli. EPL clubs spend more than the rest of Europe because they make the most money especially thru their league, not because they have some super rich benefactor.
In Italy the problem are not the owners but the league and the bureaucracy that holds football back, but the media have fooled people into thinking that these foreign owners are the issue because they don’t understand football or don’t care about winning.
Milan need a stadium of their own, that’s my point. Not a joint venture with Inter at San Siro.
That whole mess was spearheaded by Scaroni who has commercial interest in the land surrounding SanSiro. I’m guessing that’s the same interest that Sala and Marotta share.
Inter don’t even have a plan B when it comes to the stadium issue – San Siro or bust for them. Oak Tree has zero interest.
So Milan need to bury SanSiro and start their own project at San Donato where the land has already been purchased. In my understanding the only reason this hasn’t happened is because of 1. RedBird not having any money to actually build a stadium and 2. Scaroni trying to steer the project away from San Donato for his own interests.
Elliott need to sell. They can not sell while the investigation into the acquisition of the club is open. The investigation was likely tipped off by Scaroni who stands to benefit immensely from San Siro project and the land around it. For which he “brought in” Marotta and Sala. Politicians working together.
Milan and Inter are forced to build a joint stadium, has nothing to do with Scaroni.
Milan even bought a land to build the new stadium but there are thousands of red tapes, just like there are thousands of red tapes on the joint stadium.
All that stuff about Scaroni tipping off or spearheading joint stadium, RedBird not having the money to build a stadium is just nonsense you have mustered up in your head. They bought a land and have been pushing hard to build a stadium that according to you don’t have the money to build. Ok. Didn’t they just spend like 700m in buying The Telegraph?
OK so your theory as to why after buying land at San Donato to build a stadium, Milan turned to San Siro to spend money on a relic, then spend money to demolish it, then spend money to build a new stadium next to it is…. what exactly?
I’m open to other theories that make sense. The red Tape around San Donato is far less than the red tape around San Siro and the restrictions around it’s second ring and so on… But make it make sense.
“The red Tape around San Donato is far less than the red tape around San Siro and the restrictions around it’s second ring and so on…”
Didn’t just say that the joint san siro project is spearheaded by Scaroni, Marotta, Sala, the politicians working together because they have commercial interest in the land surrounding San Siro? Then why are there more red tapes about that project if its backed up by the conspiring politicians than the San Donato project?
It doesn’t matter who the owner is or who is involved in spearheading a project, the red tapes will still be there. Thats the point you are missing because you are stuck on Scaroni being the culprit.
Who is the culprit in Roma’s project for their plan to build a stadium? Is it Scaroni too? Or is it that their owners don’t have the money?
Or is it because different owners for over a decade has been trying to build stadiums and they haven’t made even a millimeter progress?
You’re not answering my question. I don’t care about Roma and I’m not stuck on Scaroni in any way. It’s the theory that makes most sense to me given the turnaround in San Donato.
In your mind, why did they pivot to San Siro after having purchased the land at San Donato if the red tape is always there and you have to deal with it regardless of where you go?
Well said.
Go back to San Donato.
No need to waste time here.
San Donato would be up and running by 2028 and San Siro would still be stuck in red tape until 2050 or something.
Few countries in the world work harder to hold back their own teams and top league then Italy.
No wonder the league have gone from the best in the world to barely being able to compete with League 1 and Bundesliga.
Props to Juventus to being able to build a stadium in such a corrupt, overly bureaucratic, backwards striding country.