PSG will leave the Parc des Princes for a large stadium that it will build outside Paris, with president Nasser al-Khelaïfi assuring that it was a question of life and death for the club.
Owner of PSG since 2011, Qatar has decided to let the club in the French capital finance itself. This is therefore the new Nasser al-Khelaïfi mission: the Rouge et Bleu must play in a large modern stadium, even if it means turning their back on the Parc de Princes, the legendary venue of the Porte de Saint-Cloud club. With Paris City Hall prohibiting any work at the Park, the president of PSG confirmed the construction of an enclosure with at least 60,000 seats in three or four years. This will mark the end of an era and many supporters may well head in another direction.
“I really like the Parc des Princes, everyone loves it. If I listen to my heart, we're not leaving. But today, everyone in Europe has stadiums with 100,000, 80,000, 90,000 seats… We need them, otherwise we are dead”launched “NAK” on RMC, Thursday, during a broadcast of Rothen ignites live from the PSG Campus in Poissy. The president of PSG thus refers to the renovated Santiago Bernabéu with 78,000 seats and the future Camp Nou with 105,000 seats in 2026, or even to the Allianz Arena in Munich with 75,000 seats.
PSG lagging behind at European level
Is it really a question of life or death for PSG?
” Yes. We are in France, but we also play in Europe. We compete every year
And to specify: “The city leaves us no choice. (…) I don’t do politics. For us, we need a stadium ready in 3-4 years, we have no time to lose, otherwise we are behind other clubs in Europe. We need to make decisions, to build as quickly as possible”. Last May, the new track for the construction of a stadium led to the Saint-Cloud racecourse, a huge private space which is established in the towns of Rueil-Malmaison and Saint-Cloud in Hauts-de-Seine .
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