“We’re going to leave. We have no choice. The city leaves us no choice“. Nasser Al-Khelaïfi ignited the powder three weeks ago by announcing the upcoming departure of PSG from the Parc des Princes. The Qatari president was even moving a little quickly, hoping for a new “stage in 3 or 4 years“. A voluntary declaration but in fact impossible to keep with such deadlines. Building a stadium represents a decade of work, which is confirmed this evening on BFM Paris Île-de-France Emmanuel Gréagoire, the first deputy mayor of Paris, and candidate to succeed Anne Hidalgo. “You have to understand that building a 100,000-seat stadium with all the things you need cannot happen in less than 15 years. As long as it is possible between environmental legislation, technical constraints of traffic and public transport… I wish them good luck“.
Emmanuel Grégoire hopes to renew the dialogue that had been completely broken with the club’s management for several months, the result of the broken relationship between Anne Hidalgo and Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, who have never stopped sending each other various barbs through the media. “My ambition is simple: to start again on a basis of dialogue that I hope is healthy, in which the sale of the Parc des Princes is not on the table, because the Paris Council has decided so.» adds the left-wing candidate who Anne Hidalgo will not support (she chose the socialist senator Rémi Féraud, editor’s note). According to him, solutions still exist at the Parc des Princes. “The Paris Council has expressed itself very clearly against a sale of the Parc des Princes but also to propose very innovative things which guarantee the rights of the shareholder, economic development and guarantee to those who pay for the work the capacity to do so. amortize it over time, so that it is not wasted funds and that they find their financial interests there. I think that by sitting around the table in a dispassionate and serious manner we could very easily find a solution.“. To the wise…
