Ordine in favour of joint stadium: “You pay 50% while the revenues are still 100%” | OneFootball

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.

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’.”