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Paris will not sell the Parque de los Príncipes to PSG, warns Anne Hidalgo

Paris will not sell the Parque de los Príncipes to PSG, warns Anne Hidalgo

The Park of the Princes “not for sale” and “will not be sold” to the Paris S.G.who wanted to buy the stadium from Pariswarned the mayoress of the French capital Anne Hidalgo in a meeting with readers of the newspaper Le Parisien.

“It is a firm and definitive position. It is an exceptional heritage of Parisians”added the socialist mayor, whose team had not been closed to dialogue until now, despite the fact that the sale of the venue was not the “priority option”.

Following these statements, a club spokesperson was “disappointed and surprised”denouncing that the city council of the capital wants “throw the Paris SG and its supporters out of the Parc des Princes”.

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“The mayoress forces PSG to leave home”, he added, insisting on the need for the club to have a larger stadium to match the greats of Europewhich are owners of stadiums with a capacity of 60,000 to 90,000 spectators.

This source recalled that the Qatari property (since 2011) has invested 85 million euros in renovating a stadium that does not belong to the club and reiterated that the entity will not pay for the renovation, modernization and expansion of the capacity estimated at 500 million euros that If you own the property.

Contacted by AFP, a PSG manager denounced the “greed” of the town hall, for whom it would be a “financial suicide” taking charge of an enclosure that needs works for “30 million euros just to adapt to current environmental regulations”.

First inaugurated in 1897 and then in 1972 with its new architecture, the old velodrome, whose current capacity is 48,000 spectators, is the stadium where Paris SG has played since 1974.

Club and city signed the current use contract in 2014, for a period of 30 years.

At the end of November, the president of Paris SG Nasser Al-Khelaifi dug up the hatchet: “They pressure us to leave”, he stated in an interview.

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The club made a purchase offer, but “very low, very far from the estimate we have”, declared at the time the deputy of Sports Pierre Rabadan.

The manager contacted by AFP did not want to confirm figures, but stated that the price requested by the council is “seven or eight times higher than the estimates made by the municipality”.

According to first deputy Emmanuel Grégoire, quoted by Le Parisien, PSG offered 40 million euros. “It is cheaper than Paredes”, compared to the cost of the Argentine midfielder (50 million), which angered Al-Khelaifi.

Source: AFP

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