The door of Paris town hall is
"still open"
to PSG, for which
"there are other solutions"
than the sale of the Parc des Princes, Anne Hidalgo's deputy for sport, Pierre, reacted to AFP Rabadan, after the president of the Parisian club said he wanted to leave the stadium, due to not being able to acquire it.
“The door is still open. There will be no sale, but there are other solutions
,” said Pierre Rabadan a few hours after the exit of PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi according to whom PSG now wants to
“move from the Parc des Princes”
.
The town hall
“wants PSG to stay at the Parc des Princes, PSG is the Parc des Princes club
,” he argued, saying he did not want to
“overreact”
and calling on the club to resume dialogue
“otherwise only by interposed press
.
The Parisian club, engaged until the end of 2043 in a thirty-year lease with the Town Hall, owner, considers that the acquisition of the stadium is essential to carry out its expansion project to 60,000 seats, compared to around 48,000 currently.
In January 2023, Anne Hidalgo closed the door by announcing that the Park
“will not be sold”
.
And on Tuesday, the municipal assembly dominated by the left reinforced this position, asking that the modernization of the sports venue
“be carried out within the framework of an arrangement satisfying all parties but not implying its transfer”
.
Thursday, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi responded to Anne Hidalgo in a new skirmish which punctuates relations between the two parties, which have become frosty for more than a year.
“It’s too easy to say now that the stadium is no longer for sale. We know what we want, we wasted years trying to buy the Park. It’s over now, we want to move from the Park
,” the Qatari leader told journalists on the sidelines of the UEFA Congress in Paris.
“They still have a contract until 2044”
, recalls Pierre Rabadan for whom the club leaders
“cannot terminate the contract unilaterally”
.
As for the option of
“building a stadium, in Montigny-le-Bretonneux or elsewhere, it is ten years in the best case”
, underlined the former rugby player, who does not
“understand their strategy”
.
According to the deputy, the club only informed the town hall of its firm intention to acquire the stadium
“until the end”
of the joint work for the expansion of the enclosure, at the end of 2022.