Franco Ordine has revealed his belief that AC Milan building and sharing a new stadium with Inter is something that carries more benefits than drawbacks.
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Inter and Milan announced earlier in the week that they have filed the DOCFAP with the City Council, the project feasibility document for the construction of a new stadium.
It is a document that is over 300 pages and is essentially the proposal from the clubs to acquire the current San Siro and surrounding areas. It foresees a 71,500 capacity stadium, plus the partial demolition of the existing stadium.
There is some confusion regarding the move from Milan, given they spent €55m on land in San Donato which they previously declared was the focus, before switching back to a joint project.
Ordine published his weekly column for MilanNews in which he touched upon a number of topics but chose to focus firstly on the news that has come out about Milan’s new home.
“Stadium issue. I read of large sections of the Milanese public furious at the choice to ‘abandon’ San Donato and focus on the new stadium shared with Inter. No one today can sign a prediction on the success of this project but everyone must know a basic truth on the subject,” he said.
“A new stadium, in Milan, can cost figures that are around 1.2 billion euros: probably no one is capable of doing it alone. To simplify: if you consider the fact that to build it you pay 50% while the revenues are still 100%, then perhaps you can also overlook the lack of ‘exclusivity’.”