While relations with the Paris town hall and PSG are broken regarding the Parc des Princes and Nasser Al-Khelaïfi is determined to move, the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines has reaffirmed its ambition to welcome the future PSG stadium.
If you read L'Equipe this morning, you may have seen this surprising advertising insert on page 11. « SQY has no limit » (SQY n'a pas de limite)we can read, in capital letters, with an illustration of a constellation of stars forming a footballer kicking a ball above a stadium. This is not an EDF advertisement, but a communication stunt from the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (SQY).
Besides the little play on words referring to the English expression « Sky is the limit » (the sky is the limit), we can also read this message on this advertising insert: “What better place than Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to host the future PSG stadium? ». An urban community bringing together 12 municipalities, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines has for several months had the ambition to host the future PSG stadium project.
The club has long had a project to renovate the Parc des Princes in the works, but assures that this option must now be forgotten, due to lack of agreement with the Paris town hall to purchase the enclosure. PSG also ensures that the potential change of majority in Paris in 2026 will have no impact on its choice, now definitive, to leave its historic enclosure to build its own stadium in Île-de-France, if possible in the West Paris.
The Montigny-le-Bretonneux trail is ultimately still relevant?
As it leaked to the press last January, PSG is digging a track in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, one of the 12 communities in the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, where land located on the base of leisure activities in this town could do the trick. PSG had also considered setting up its training center there for a time, before opting for Poissy, located around twenty minutes by car. But at the end of November, Le Parisien assured in a long article on the file for the future PSG stadium that this option, “who has held the rope for a long time, no longer seems to be in the race”.
The city obviously does not have the same opinion and therefore paid for a nice advertising insert in L'Equipe to send the message that it was still a candidate. It remains to be seen who this ad was really aimed at? To the decision-makers of PSG or to its supporters, many of whom are resistant to the idea of leaving the Parc des Princes? Unless it is simply a communication stunt to get people talking about their territory and to use PSG to attract other economic players…
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