CM: San Siro saga ‘never ending’ as committee present appeal over sale – the latest | OneFootball

The new stadium soap opera continues with no signs of an end in sight, as an appeal against the demolition of San Siro has been lodged.

After talk about the idea for several months, Milan and Inter finally presented their proposal to buy the San Siro area and build a new stadium earlier in the year. Now, the city council will evaluate the proposal – after no rival bids were received – and provide an answer by the summer.

As Calciomercato.com write, the San Siro saga is ‘a story that risks never ending’ as new appeals have been announced and presented to the competent authorities. In the last few days, the president of the ‘Sì Meazza’ Committee Luigi Corbani has filed a complaint with the Court of Auditors over the potential sale.

Within the complaint, the stadium is defined as ‘inalienable because it is a work of public property, by a non-living author, seventy years after its execution. The Meazza stadium has already been under constraint and protected since January 2025, and therefore cannot be demolished’.

Following the complaint to the Court of Auditors, the procedure continued with the presentation of an appeal to the TAR. This was explained by one of the founders of the ‘Sì Meazza’ Committee, Carlo Trotta, in an interview with affariitaliani.

“The proposal by Milan and Inter to demolish San Siro to build a new stadium, to be financed by concreting over all the green areas that are currently around it, is a large real estate operation conceived with the sole purpose of restoring the balance sheets of the two club, without any environmental, economic or urban planning advantage for the city and for the world of football.

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“There is in fact no reason to demolish the Meazza, other than to do business with the speculation of the surrounding areas. Luigi Corbani, president of the SìMeazza Committee, has therefore presented an appeal to the Court of Auditors.

“On May 6, the Committee also presented a new appeal to the TAR. The solution? It is necessary to launch an international tender for the renovation and future management of the stadium.

“The Meazza can be economically sustainable, with or without one or both teams, provided that it is modernised and improved, both in terms of multipurpose use throughout the year for sports and live entertainment, and with respect to services and comfort for the public.

“One really has to ask where the public interest lies in wanting to demolish the Meazza stadium to build a new stadium, building other buildings in the same area, with further land consumption and loss of real greenery.”