Mayor Sala believes ‘troubled’ new stadium debate will ‘take a year or so’ to be resolved
The Mayor of Milan Beppe Sala has claimed that it could take a year before full approval arrives from the City Council for AC Milan and Inter to build their new stadium.
The two Milano-based clubs have been working on the project for a very long time and they have faced several setbacks in that period, with both sides expressing their frustration that they have not even been able to set a date to break ground.
Sala clarified some important aspects of the construction of the new Milan stadium during an interview with Calcio e Finanza in which he admitted that the green light is not yet close, with his comments relayed by our colleagues at
SempreMilan.it.
“In the city council, to decide on the stadium, I think it will take a year or so. Now, unfortunately, this stadium story is so troubled and my intention is to take it one step at a time,” he said.
“The next step will be to receive, on November 18, the result of the public debate. From this, we will have to formally respond either by accepting the observations that have been made, or by rejecting them by arguing. After that the council will deliberate.
“At that point the teams will have the task, on the one hand of building the executive project and on the other hand, of explaining better how San Siro would be dismantled, unless you find other interests on the road. Opinions change in a year.
“I have the impression that on a subject like this, when we go to the council there may not be the classic division between center-left and center-right. But this is my impression to date, in a year who knows how things will be.”
Milan president Paolo Scaroni was recently asked if there is a possibility that Milan could build a new stadium away from the site of the current San Siro if things took too long and possibly without Inter, and
he did not seem against the idea.