The city of Paris will not sell the Parc des Princes stadium to Paris Saint-Germain, according to the capital’s mayor. Anne Hidalgo.
“I love football, I love my team. I repeat, we are ready to study and accompany the transformations of the Park,” said Hidalgo in an interview with the French regional newspaper Ouest France.
“The matter is closed”
“I also say it again now and once and for all: there is no sale of the Parc des Princes. It is the heritage of the Parisians. The matter is closed,” the politician said.
Hidalgo also showed up his anger for some “appalling” statements by the president of PSG, Nasser al-Khelaifi, a year ago, where he suggested that the city did not want to sell them the stadium because its owners (Qataris) were “Arabs.”
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PSG currently pays between 2 and 2.5 million euros per season to the city for the stadium, but its small size (48,000 spectators) leaves the club at a disadvantage in terms of season ticket revenue. and ticket sales compared to the big teams. Europeans.
PSG has indicated for several years that it wants to expand it (although there are technical complications because part of it is built in a tunnel) and for this it is better to buy it.
Paris doesn’t want to let go
But the city does not want to part with that legacy, so PSG has made sure that it does not rule out the idea of building another stadium outside the capital.
The other great stadium in the region, France, Located in Saint Denis, it is owned by the French State, and the national soccer and rugby teams play there, all of which eliminates any hypothesis of PSG moving.
Source: La Verdad
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