The work concerning San Siro stadium involving Inter, Milan, and the Municipality of Milan continues, without ultimatums but with the awareness of a necessity: “Proceed to confirm the given timelines.”
Yesterday afternoon, the clubs met with the Mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, to discuss the offer to be presented for the purchase of the Meazza stadium and surrounding areas. The financial plan within the feasibility document (Docfap) has not yet been presented, and the timelines have been extended. This is because the two owners, Oaktree and RedBird, have not reached an agreement on a clause defining what would happen if one of the two clubs were to withdraw.
NO ULTIMATUM AND NEW MEETING – Giuseppe Sala, the Mayor of Milan, spoke about the situation on the sidelines of the Welfare Forum: “I had a meeting with the teams last night, they have no problems or differences on the proposal to be made to the Municipality, on which they have reached an agreement. They are discussing clauses regarding their relationships, because it is clear that this is a long operation, which will last for years, so they must take care to understand how to regulate any points of blockage or disagreement. I am quite confident and I will see them again tomorrow,” reports Calcio e Finanza. The Milanese leader added: “No ultimatum of any kind, but I explained to them that we must proceed if we want to confirm the timelines we had given ourselves. Timelines that are confirmed.”
THE PROCEDURE TO FOLLOW – Matteo Salvini (Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport), said the other day in Milan that “with the Minister of Sport we are considering a sort of receivership to speed up and cut bureaucratic times.” Regarding this, Sala commented: “I don’t know what he is referring to, there is a stadium law that can be applied and says, for example, that you can go to direct negotiation with interested parties.”
Finally, Sala concluded by highlighting the procedure to follow: “What we have decided and what the clubs know well is that any direct negotiation must be preceded by a public tender. So in theory, and I hope also in practice, what should happen? That the teams give us a joint document, we proceed with a public tender, quick, of about thirty days, then we can go to direct negotiation with the clubs to refine the relationships. The stadium law already says a lot, so I don’t think anything more is needed.”