AC Milan are continuing to explore two options on the new stadium front, and this has apparently annoyed San Donato.
According to Calciomercato.com, the project to build a cutting-edge stadium in the San Siro area ‘has formally come back to life’. The council have expressed enthusiasm over reigniting the shared stadium idea and a first significant step has been taken by overcoming the obstacle of the restriction on the current stadium.
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Milan and Inter will now await the evaluation of the Revenue Agency, which will arrive by 9/10 November, before formalising their respective interests in continuing with a project first spoken about in 2019.
AC Milan president Paolo Scaroni reiterated to Mayor Sala his interest in proceeding with the second phase, although he is aware that the designers will have to evaluate various aspects that could lead to critical issues.
Traffic, greenery and acoustic impact must be considered and only once these obstacles have been overcome will it be possible to deliver the updated project, with an accompanying economic framework that includes the purchase of the current San Siro and surrounding area.
Here Milan would find itself faced with a first deadline, namely whether to go ahead with the purchase of the San Siro stadium and land. The owners would like to make a definitive decision on which project to carry forward – either San Donato or San Siro – by next summer 2025.
The Mayor of San Donato has understandably been left a bit confused and requested an urgent meeting with the top management of Milan and the owners of the club in order to reach a clarification regarding the project in his area.
A telephone contact between Scaroni and Mayor Squeri took place at the end of last week. It was conversation that established two main points: the Rossoneri reiterated its intention to move forward with the San Donato project because of timing and having their own home (without having to share).
The second point is that relating to a meeting in person between Scaroni (or a RedBird manager) and Squeri to clarify the situation that has arisen in recent days. A date, we learn, has not yet been set but should arrive in conjunction with the Revenue Agency’s evaluation of the new San Siro, therefore within the first 10 days of November.
Milan have already invested a lot of money in the new facility in San Francesco in San Donato Milanese, but at this point it is necessary to make a definitive decision, choose a real plan A. The various internal meetings of the ownership in the last few days are going precisely in this direction.
San Donato is the one viable option for AC Milan, this San Siro option will not only cost more time, but also some restrictions and opposition might pop up, then if it goes through, Milan will have to share it’s Stadium , surrounding property and buildings with Inter.
At this point in time, a club with Milans global reach, prestige and history needs it’s own stadium, offices and museum without Inter, this will ultimately be very beneficial financially, institutionally , historically, and further grow the Milan brand, just look at what Barcelona and Madrid, if Redbird has vision and ambition then a stadium owned by Milan is the best thing to do, virtually every serious European club has its own stadium, then Milan continues to share with Inter, that’s rubbish,
100% agree. Plus, being that it’s Italy, new obstacles/opposition may arrive at any time. The club(s) may ultimately get permission to buy the stadium and renovate, but then some group will pop up and oppose and get the courts involved. We go can end up making the rounds for another 2-3 years before giving up and ending up at San Donato anyway, or worse, an indefinite holding pattern at San Siro.
How Milan would rent the stadium for side events with Inter also having a stadium and San Siro being turned into a concert venue? At some point that’s just stupidity to repeat that Milan would magically become a powerhouse by having its own stadium. The burden of the debt would be tremendous for years. There’s no public funds or municipality bonds to build stadiums in Italy. The logistics of having a 70k capacity stadium in a city of 30k citizens would also be problematic. Economically, environmentally and logistically speaking, the best solution is to share a stadium with Inter in the San Siro area. And it’s way more comfortable for the fans as well.
Seems like a speech that a PR guy would get from chatgpt haha
Exactly
Gerry is basically pushing for a proof of concept with San Donato (the smaller sports complex by Sport Life City). Once that becomes viable (they’ve already receive approvals for it I think), the bigger stadium should become easier in terms of getting it passed through. But shovels need to be in ground first.
Or at least that’s my take on his strategy. I believe he even said as much
The San Siro option is only better due to shared cost with Inter and for history but the amenities of the stadium will stick lack (unless that aspect is also being improved)
200M to buy out the stadium and the land and then an additional 1000M to get it renovated to become a modern stadia (plus bribes and taxes to the Municipality).
Stick to the San Donato, and stop sending Scaroni out to be the mouthpiece. He’s just mucking things up.
I hate the ideea to let Inter alone at rich historic San Siro area. San Siro was originally our stadium, build by Pirelli family for AC Milan. We can’t let Inter to have our house just them…