Final Up to date: January 14, 2023, 23:16 IST
Parc des Princes (AFP Picture)
The membership has made acquisition of the positioning a situation for finishing up modernisation and enlargement works to the tune of 500 million euros.
The Parc des Princes “isn’t on the market” and “is not going to be offered” to Paris Saint-Germain, the town mayor Anne Hidalgo mentioned in an interview revealed in Saturday’s Parisien newspaper.
The stadium within the leafy western reaches of the town near the tennis courts of Roland Garros is owned by the municipality however PSG’s Qatari house owners have threatened to take the membership away if it’s not ceded to them.
The membership has made acquisition of the positioning a situation for finishing up modernisation and enlargement works to the tune of 500 million euros.
“It’s a agency and definitive place,” mentioned Hidalgo.
“It’s an distinctive piece of heritage for Parisians.”
Her group have mentioned they’re prepared to debate the bottom concern, even when the sale isn’t her “precedence choice”.
“We should help PSG in its want and its want for renovation, for rising capability, for modernising the Parc,” she mentioned, including that “a part of the stadium is on the ring street so we can’t dig”.
In November, PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi advised Spanish sports activities every day Marca that PSG was “now not welcome” on the Parc des Princes, including that they have been taking a look at “different alternate options”.
“They’re pressuring us to depart,” he mentioned, insisting that the Qataris had “invested 80 million euros” – earlier than Euro 2016 – in a stadium which “isn’t ours”.
Inaugurated in 1897 then remodelled in 1972, the previous velodrome, with its 48,000 capability, has been residence to the Parisian membership since 1974.
The present 30-year lease kicked in in 2014.
The membership has already put in a single supply to purchase the bottom however based on Hidalgo’s deputy Emmanuel Gregoire, it solely amounted to 40 million euros.
“It’s cheaper than Paredes,” he joked in reference to the Argentine midfielder Leandro Paredes who price PSG 47 million euros when he joined in 2019.
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