Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, the president of PSG, has announced that PSG wants and will leave the Parc des Princes.
This time, there is no room for doubt. Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, the president of PSG, confirmed to France Bleu that the club has decided to abandon the Parc des Princes, following the city of Paris’s categorical refusal to sell the stadium.
« It’s too easy to say now that the stadium is no longer for sale. We know what we want; we wasted years trying to buy the Parc. It’s over now; we want to move from the Parc! » announced Nasser Al-Khelaïfi.
Earlier this week, Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, had confirmed that the city’s position on the matter would not change despite pressure from PSG. « I am saying it again today and once and for all: there will be no sale of the Parc des Princes; it is the heritage of Parisians. The subject is closed, » stated the mayor of Paris in Ouest France. The Paris Council later endorsed this position.
PSG is now searching for a new stadium, which could be Jean Bouin, located next to the Parc des Princes, Charléty, La Défense, or Poissy. However, it will not be in Montigny, in the Yvelines.
According to RMC Sport, « the Parisian management believes that the city’s vote makes ‘everything clear’ and ‘facilitates matters’ to move forward in this matter.
According to RMC Sport, the president of PSG « believes that the club would have already moved if the city had said eight years ago that the stadium was not for sale. » The PSG management and Nasser Al-Khelaïfi believe that they are « building the club for the next 100 years, not for four or five years of political terms. »
