While tensions around the future of the Parc des Princes are once again high between PSG and Paris City Hall, the latter did not hesitate to call on Nicolas Sarkozy, well known to Parisian decision-makers, to bring the two parties closer together. The idea of a lease at Roland-Garros is also put forward by the Town Hall.
Sarkozy called to reconcile PSG and City Hall
The issue of the future of the Parc des Princes is one of the hottest at PSG, probably even the hottest off the field with that of the future of Kylian Mbappé, and it has experienced numerous eventful episodes during the week. On the one hand, the sometimes dissonant declarations of the various representatives of Paris City Hall, between the desire to resume dialogue and the affirmation of the formal refusal to sell the stadium to its resident club. On the other, the very clear words of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi with a three-month ultimatum announced in this issue which has been slipping for several years now.
Al-Khelaïfi issues an ultimatum to Paris town hall for the Parc des Princes 5
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While PSG revealed part of its game with the assurance that it had solutions far from the Parc des Princes which it has occupied for 50 years, the Paris City Hall has changed its tone in recent days and advocates the reopening of a completely broken dialogue with the club, in particular its president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi. To try to mend things, Mayor Anne Hidalgo even solicited, according to L’Equipe, a matchmaker with a well-known name: the former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy, a lifelong supporter of PSG and involved in the takeover of the club by Qatar in 2011.
For the moment, this attempt to bring the two parties together by the former mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine has not led to much, as evidenced by the very offensive interviews with Nasser Al-Khelaïfi at the start of the week. So much so that the Town Hall even wonders if the message was indeed passed by Sarkozy to Al-Khelaïfi. The ultimatum posed by the Parisian president was not really understood at the Town Hall, nor well received.
A rental at the Roland-Garros proposed to PSG
In recent days, the tone has in any case changed on the town hall side and the first deputy Emmanuel Grégoire, present with the sports deputy Pierre Rabada in front of the press, explained that he “proposals to make so that the club, even if it does not buy the Parc des Princes, can capitalize on its investments. We must establish a working framework without prerequisites, without ultimatums. […] We have a great project to build together. We suggest working calmly again, to demonstrate it and explain things. »
The first deputy explains the idea of the moment, a very long-term rental, possibly in the form of a long-term lease which would last up to 99 years: “This is what is done at Roland-Garros. The French Tennis Federation is making investments of 490 million euros there, but it is rented for such a long period, around 50 years, that they are amortized. The investments that PSG would make would in any case be exhausted in thirty years, after which they will have to be made again. Its interests would therefore be guaranteed. »
Not sure that PSG is very convinced by this proposal though, especially after years of fruitless dialogue.
2024-01-14 10:58:00
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