Inter and AC Milan are determined to build a new stadium, and Mayor Beppe Sala believes that had they been unable to do so in Milan the clubs would have looked elsewhere to do so.

Speaking to the online edition of Milan-based newspaper Il 24 Sole Ore, Sala explained that he expected that the clubs were ready to go ahead on a new stadium no matter what and that he wanted to find an agreement with them rather than see them go elsewhere.

The Nerazzurri and the Rossoneri both see the construction of a new stadium in Milan as a vital step into the future, with an increase in revenues, control of their own stadium, and the modernization of facilities and infrastructures all sought after.

Finding full agreement with the city council on the project has not proved easy, but recent meetings followed last month’s civic elections, and newly re-elected Mayor Sala has emphasized that he wants to keep working with the clubs on the proposed new stadium.

Issues have come up in the meeting especially regarding the volumetric index of the concrete to be used in the project which will have to be accounted for in revised financial projections for the project.

However, there is now an agreement close at hand with the mayor and the city council, the importance of which Sala understands.

“This is a green light that will allow the clubs to move towards the executive project, which requires time and investment,” he said. “From our point of view it is positive because we have led the teams to accept the volumetric PGT index which was the thing that was most significant to me. There will also be a lot of green space.”

He went on that “I believe that a new fifty thousand square meter park will come out of this. To those who are against it, my point of view is that if we had made made a wall and tried to stop the teams, who were united in favour of a new stadium, they would probably have gone to build the stadium somewhere else and we would have remained with the San Siro in our hands.”