Milan city mayor Giuseppe ‘Beppe’ Sala has admitted that there is still some distance between Inter and AC Milan’s demands and what the Milan city council can grant them in terms of volume of additional buildings as part of the new stadium project.

As part of their stadium project, the two clubs wish to build several additional buildings to give life to the area when football is not being played.

The clubs would like hotels, shops and restaurants among other things to be built but the amount they want exceeded what the Milan city council can give to them.

“The teams know about the maximum volumes that the City can grant them. The clubs know that what they have asked for so far is impossible for us to accept. This remains a fundamental knot,” Sala remarked in an interview with Italian daily newspaper Il Giorno, which appeared on their online edition.

In recent weeks the two clubs published further renderings of the projects put forward to them by the Populous group and Manica/CMR Sportium project and it remains to be seen which of the projects the two clubs will decide to go on with.