Inter and AC Milan have clarified their position on the topic of the new stadium, speaking to Italian media outlet Affar Italiani yesterday.
“The only option on the table to date is to be able to create a new San Siro in San Siro and this was the basis for the Feasibility Proposal and the request made to the City of Milan. The Clubs do not have another project elsewhere. If the City Council does not recognize the public interest in the Clubs’ Proposal, the San Siro option will cease to exist from its first procedural step.”
“If such a situation should occur, and only then, will the Clubs define subsequent steps, without prejudice to the need to equip themselves with a stadium in line with the top clubs with which they compete. Status quo and restructuring are not viable options.”
The two clubs refused to consider alternatives at the moment.
“The clubs have made a clear and precise proposal. If you want to say no – even if only in part to this question – the clubs will consider what to do. Maximum willingness with everyone to improve the project but not to upset it in its fundamentals.”
Both Milanese sides then touched on who would own the new stadium.
“Today the San Siro stadium is not ‘managed’ by the Clubs, but is entrusted to them in concession until 2030, with the possibility of cancellation with notice of two years. The Feasibility Proposal for the redevelopment of the San Siro area that the clubs have presented to the City of Milan is also based on the assumption of concession.”
“If the Clubs’ Proposal is approved definitively, after the various steps provided for by the procedure of the Stadium Law and the Clubs win the public tender to be called by the City, the subject of the report will always be a concession, for which a new agreement must be signed between the teams and the City of Milan.”
“The advanced Feasibility Proposal envisages a concession, with the establishment of a surface right, for 90 years, at the end of which both the Stadium and the multifunctional district will be returned to the Municipality in full efficiency and functionality.”
The clubs also discussed the reasons by the creation of multiple other buildings, apart from the stadium.
“The project presented to the City of Milan includes both the construction of the Stadium and a multifunctional district, as required by the Stadium Law, necessary to ensure economic sustainability and to achieve the goal of upgrading the entire area of San Siro.”
“The definition of the mix of activities can only take place after the public interest and will take place in the procedural dialogue with the institutions.”
Finally, AC Milan refused to entertain the idea that the club would be put up for sale following the approval from the City for the stadium.
“Will the club be put up for sale after receiving the go-ahead? Absolutely not.”