Parc des Princes sale: bold claim from Paris’s new mayor! | OneFootball

Emmanuel Grégoire, recently elected mayor of Paris after notably announcing his intention to restart discussions with Paris Saint-Germain over the sale of the Parc des Princes (rather than the club moving to Poissy or Massy), gave an update on this matter this Monday on France Info. In particular, he addressed what is planned for the money raised from a sale.

Grégoire “we must put the money into many other more useful places”

An announcement for the Parc des Princes?

I want to resume discussions very quickly, and I will bring the matter before the Paris Council during the special meeting I will call for mid-April. I want a mandate, because it is not city hall that decides this, but the Paris Council.

The second thing is to say that we have a huge emotional attachment to our club, and that we want it to stay in Paris. So we want to create the conditions for it to remain. I said that I am in favor of the sale, also because I believe that public money should not pay for a professional football stadium. I believe that the money should be put into many other more useful places, and I said that all of the proceeds from the sale to PSG would be allocated to the creation of new sports facilities, the maintenance of sports facilities, and the creation of green spaces.

Grégoire “we want to conclude the discussions by the end of the summer at the latest”

I also said that I wanted to present the team with an award for its Champions League victory. And finally, regarding the timetable, we agreed with PSG’s shareholder that we want to conclude the discussions by the end of the summer at the latest. You have to know how to set ambitious timelines. I hope to shake on it with them, as they say, by the summer.

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