The Parc des Princes issue is taking a turn that Paris City Hall is beginning to fear. Because PSG is now moving forward quickly on the file for its future stadium.
“ If Paris City Hall does not want to sell the Parc des Princes, it is no longer even an option. So what do we do? We can’t wait forever. We have investors who want to join us. We won’t wait long. The other clubs are building. » This week, Nasser Al-Khelaifi put enormous pressure on Anne Hidalgo on the stadium issue, and if for a long time the mayor of Paris took the words of the Qatari president of PSG with haughtiness and probably a little disdain, this is clearly no longer the case.
Because now we know that the capital club has held negotiations with other elected officials, and as the French champions have definitively given up on the Stade de France, the city of Paris senses the danger coming. It was to revive the thread of a completely lost dialogue with Nasser Al-Khelaifi that Anne Hidalgo called on one of her political enemies to play the role of peacekeeper: Nicolas Sarkozy.
Sarko to the aid of Paris town hall
Close to PSG, Qatar and Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the former President of the Republic has the ideal profile to try to bring the two camps back to the negotiating table. On paper, the idea revealed this Sunday by L’Equipe is not so bad, even if it can inevitably be surprising as it combines two opposing political camps. However, if Anne Hidalgo thought that Nicolas Sarkozy could plead his case to the Qatari boss of Paris Saint-Germain, she was obviously disappointed.
Hidalgo forced to call on Sarkozy to reconnect with PSG boss Nasser al-Khelaïfi. The mayor of Paris is struggling over the negotiations for the purchase of the Parc des Princes. As a result, elected officials from Paris are no longer invited to the matches. Hard… https://t.co/gxiFOylsNc
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Not that the former mayor of Neuilly sent him away, but his request had absolutely no effect. Even to the point that the sports daily affirms that on the side of the Left elected official we wonder if Nicolas Sarkozy really got the message across, no negotiations having resumed since this call. On the contrary, Anne Hidalgo and her elected officials took the three months given by Nasser Al-Khelaifi to the municipality as a slap in the face to propose a solution concerning the Parc des Princes. Because in addition, Parisian elected officials, apart from the mayor, would no longer be entitled to tickets for PSG matches. Hard hard.