New stadium for Milan and Inter, push to accelerate from Tottenham – Corriere.it

They are rivals in almost all of Milan and Inter at the moment, but they are in agreement on the need for a new stadium. Each on their own, according to the convictions of the owner of the Rossoneri, Gerry Cardinale; in the new San Siro together with Milan, according to plan A reaffirmed by CEO Alessandro Antonello (but Inter, in 2022, when the Elliott fund was still on the other side, signed a confidentiality agreement with the Cabassis, owners of an area in Rozzano, to be ready to go on her own).

The experience of New White Hart Lane, the Tottenham stadium built in just two years (and bringing in revenues of 125 million, against the 32 of the Milanese clubs), has convinced the Rossoneri even more that: 1. restructuring the San Siro is not enough to have the « world-class» that you desire (where, among other things, you can host your Live Nation member’s entertainment events); 2. It’s time to speed up. Too much time has already been lost: four years since we started thinking about the project. And in Italy a new stadium has not been built since 2011, that of Juventus.

Inter also like the Tottenham plant very much not only because it was inaugurated in 2019 with the Legends team, but because, designed by the same Populous studywas inspired by the «Cathedral», the shared stadium which in all probability will never be built again.

Cardinal, at the conference of Financial Times, explained well that he prefers “independence” and also with what spirit Milan has taken: “We’ve been up there for almost four years. We are not the type of investors to just show up and buy. We don’t write checks, we write business plans. I started doing this job 20 plus years ago, and coming up with capital was the competitive edge; now everyone has money. So you have to be the best.” And the stadium of ownership is a fundamental point of the business plan, the objective is «to create an offer of value».

But the stadium is also an urgency for Steven Zhang, annoyed by the rumors about the precariousness of Inter’s ownership: whether he remains in the medium term, or whether the mandate given to Goldman Sachs and Raine materialises, having a stadium project in an advanced stage makes all the difference in the world.