The Parc des Princes “is not for sale”, insists Anne Hidalgo

In an interview with the “Parisien”, the mayor of Paris returns to the sale of the PSG stadium to the Qatari owners of the club.

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Lhe Parc des Princes “is not for sale” and “will not be sold” to Paris Saint-Germain, which aspired to buy it from the Paris City Hall, slices the mayor Anne Hidalgo in an interview with the readers of the Parisian aired Saturday. The Qatari owners of PSG have threatened to leave the club’s historic grounds if it is not ceded to them, a condition, according to them, for carrying out modernization and expansion works worth 500 million euros.

“It is a firm and definitive position. This is an exceptional heritage of Parisians, ”adds the elected socialist, while her team said so far to be open to dialogue, even if the sale was not her” priority option “. The former PS presidential candidate did not mention the possibility of a departure from the club. “We must support PSG in its desire and need for renovation, increase in capacity, modernization of the Park”, even if “part of the stadium is on the ring road, so we cannot dig”, says -she.READ ALSO 2022 World Cup – Sonny Anderson: “Neymar is on a mission in Qatar” Inaugurated first in 1897 and then in 1972 with its new architecture, the former velodrome, whose capacity is now fixed at 48,000 places, has been home to the Parisian club since 1974. The current emphyteutic lease, which entered into force in 2014, runs for thirty years. At the end of November, the president of PSG, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, had dug up the hatchet on this subject. “They are pressuring us to leave”, had dropped the Qatari leader in a vitriolic interview against the municipality, recalling having “invested 80 million euros”, before Euro 2016 in a stadium which “is not at [eux] “.