Mayor Sala confirms Milan and Inter have rejected San Siro renovation but could build together | OneFootball

The Mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala has confirmed that AC Milan and Inter have rejected the idea of renovating San Siro but now seem open to re-exploring the idea of building a new home near it.

It had been previously established that Milan and Inter intended to move away from the Giuseppe Meazza, with the red half of the city planning to build in San Donato and the blue half towards Rozzano.

The City Council will never likely to let the two clubs walk away without a fight and thus a project was launched with the plan to save San Siro. They enlisted the help of WeBuild, who pitched a €300m project that would bring the nearly 100-year-old structure up to modern standards.

A meeting took place at the city hall today that was expected to provide some clarity on the intentions of the Rossoneri and the Nerazzurri regarding the project put in front of them, and it has indeed provided just that.

At the end of the discussion with Milan and Inter at Palazzo Marino on the issue of the future of San Siro, Mayor Sala announced what the two clubs have decided, with MilanNews relaying his comments.

“The meeting with the two teams has just finished, with both the management of the clubs and the owners or representatives of the owners present,” he began.

“They came to me, and let me say as a premise to everything, I note that even with the new ownership of Inter, the agreement and unity of purpose of its teams at the moment is very strong, and this is a positive thing in itself.

“The two teams told me long analyses of technical and economic feasibility regarding the hypothesis of renovating San Siro. Fundamentally starting from the WeBuild project, but essentially trying to include realistic restructuring hypotheses.

“After long analyses they came to the conclusion that it is not renovatable, or at least it is not renovatable at affordable costs, and therefore they do not consider the San Siro hypothesis as it had been thought in recent months to be feasible.

“Their proposal at this point is to return to the idea of ​​a new stadium in the San Siro area. You all know that it is a very long process, I was reviewing all the documents today, I reviewed four council resolutions, a public debate, a resolution in the city council, our resistance to the idea of ​​the referendum.

“So there is a lot of work behind it, seeing it positively means that we are not starting from scratch but from a series of actions already done and also from a very precise expression of the will of the city council.

“This is the idea. To be able to say with certainty that we will proceed in this direction, there are three things that the teams are asking for and one that I am asking for.

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“The teams are asking for these three things: 1) what exactly is the value of San Siro and the areas, since they are clear that this evaluation was entrusted with a formal charge that was made at the beginning of August to the revenue agency. We are expecting an initial evaluation in the coming days, which I repeat, with a view to the transfer of the stadium and areas to the teams.

“The first half is exactly what value it is, starting from the assumption that it is clear that that value is on the one hand a constraint, because we cannot give in even for a matter of administrative responsibility to a lower value, but we have no intention of speculating on that value. The value that there will be is the law for us.

“Second question: to understand in more detail the constraint of the superintendency in view of a change of ownership and if the stadium becomes the teams’. In this regard, we have already scheduled a meeting with the superintendency and the teams for next week.

“The third request, in light of all this, is the timing for the operation. So starting from today, the timing from now until they can become owners of the stadium and areas. They must present us with a project in a fairly short time, where the project contains on the one hand the new stadium.

“On the other a redevelopment of San Siro regarding which I cannot anticipate anything because they are working on it, but regarding this the two teams have shown great availability. These are the three things that Milan and Inter have asked us: value, constraint of the superintendency and timing.”