Milan: "If the two clubs leave the San Siro, I could never imagine abandoning it" (G. Sala, Mayor)

"If the two clubs (FC Inter Milan and AC Milan, Serie A TIM) announced that they were no longer interested in the San Siro Stadium, I could never imagine leaving it abandoned. I would try other solutions. I've already been in contact with two or three multinationals with whom I have ongoing relations. Live music is a very important business and they would be interested," said Giuseppe Sala, Mayor of Milan (Lombardy, ITA) in 'Cose in Comune' ('Common ground'), a new weekly programme he hosts on the social network Instagram, on 13/03/2024.

The Stadio Giuseppe-Meazza (another name for the stadium) "is dilapidated, but we can improve it enormously. It makes a lot of sense to work on San Siro, because it's a historic stadium for football, it's well located and in the eyes of the Milanese, it's their home," said Sala.

"A renovation would improve a lot of things. We need to modernise the sanitary facilities, the accessibility, the lifts and then perhaps plan some outdoor spaces for restaurants and shopping areas. WeBuild (an Italian construction group) is working on this and will present a…