Il PSG want to buy the Stade de France

It seems bizarre that Paris Saint-Germain, a club that has forcefully bought up all the best of European football in recent years, plays its home games in a stadium that Nasser Al-Khelaïfi does not own. In fact, the Parc des Princes is rented from the Paris municipality for around 2-3 million per year and the stadium structure, which can only hold 47,000 fans, is becoming a problem for the large number of fans and football tourism around the team of Neymar, Messi and Mbappé. The club would like to carry out renovations, but relations with the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo are not good, so the answer could be to buy the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, the largest stadium in France, for sale in 2025.

The Stade de France is a stadium built in 1998 for that year's Football World Cup and holds 81,000 spectators. It hosts various national competitions such as rugby national team matches and athletics competitions, as well as concerts. The track and lawn of the stadium will in fact be the venue for the athletics competitions of the 2024 Olympics. The management of the facility is entrusted to a consortium consisting of the transport company Vinci and the telecommunications company Bouygues, who would like to put the facility up for sale by the summer of 2025 at a price that was previously identified as 647 million euros. PSG has been considering building a new stadium in recent years, but the prospect of taking a functioning and relatively new stadium could be the best solution for the club. 

Le Monde, as also reported by Il Post, casts doubts on the whole issue, claiming that PSG's interest could be part of a bargaining strategy, as the location of the Parc des Princes is convenient and the renovation work would cost less than the acquisition of the Stade de France, for which an auction could start in the next two years. The question is also related to the sense of selling a national stadium to a foreign owner, who in the past has confirmed that he does not share the values of the French Republic and who had led the mayor herself not to broadcast the World Cup matches in Qatar in the squares, as a sign of protest against the inhuman conditions and the casualties caused by stadium construction. The Stade de France is a multi-purpose stadium and privatizing it would mean having to look for an alternative facility for rugby matches, for example, a very popular sport that has often filled the stands completely at major international events.