The Stade de France is too expensive for the Blues, believes Philippe Diallo. J.B. Autissier
Like his predecessor at the head of the French Football Federation, Philippe Diallo believes that the contract with the Stade de France must be renegotiated.
“The current contract with the Stade de France is extremely unfavorable to us“, declared to AFP the president of the FFF Philippe Diallo, indicating that he wanted”get out of this situation” while the State launched two calls for tenders for the sale and the concession of the enclosure.
“I will wait to see exactly the specifications for concessions or for sale to say more. But I think there is no viable solution without the two major football and rugby federations somehow becoming part of these projects.“Explained Saturday Philippe Diallo, questioned on the positioning of the French Football Federation in the procedure put in place by the State.
“This is what guides me, with the concern that we get out of a situation where for years, the French Football Federation has been penalized by the contractual conditions imposed on it“, he added.
The current contract between the FFF and the Stade de France consortium, which runs until 2024, provides for the organization of at least four Les Bleus meetings per year for an estimated rental cost of around 8 million euros in total. .
Regarding a possible departure of the French team from the enclosure of Saint-Denis, Philippe Diallo indicated that “at this stage, (he) isn’t considering anything“.
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“I’m waiting to see what the specifications will be and how we will fit in with them. But all this should be settled in the next 6 months. We will contribute to this by ensuring that our interests are preserved.“, he said.
On March 7, the State published the two calls for tenders: one for the transfer, the other for a new concession, with a date for the submission ofpleatson April 27 at 12:00 p.m., according to documents seen by AFP. The offers submitted, both for the transfer and for a concession, will be studied in 2024, for a probable award in 2025.
PSG had positioned itself as a potential buyer of the Saint-Denis stadium, with 80,000 seats, while negotiations between the Parisian club and the City of Paris for a possible takeover of the Parc des Princes are at a standstill.
According to a source familiar with the matter, the Stade de France would be worth “between 400 and 600 million euros“. If the State has given no price indication since the launch of the procedure, the stadium is valued at 647 million (gross value) under tangible fixed assets in the 2021 State accounts.
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