PSG has decided to enter a new dimension, coincidentally or not, after the World Cup in Qatar. If 2022 was a key date for the club’s owners due to the World Cup event, the future looks intense. First, by opening up to new owners to enter to invest; second, for a new stadium and, third, for the inauguration, in 2023, of a luxurious training center that will catapult the Parisian team to try to be the best team in the world.
The first of the measures that Al-Khelaïfi wants to implement is opening up to new investors. The president of PSG acknowledged this week in an interview that they were considering different offers and that they did not rule out giving up one of the parts of QSI, which has 100% of the shares, to a buyer. At the moment, an American fund has already expressed interest, although there is still nothing concrete.
That PSG recognize that they are willing to give in does not mean that they are going to stop investing. Rather the opposite. The Parc des Princes becomes obsolete for the leaders, who are already looking for a way to move from Boulogne to a complex that can accommodate a greater number of spectators. The first option was to expand the current stadium, but the impediments of the City Council, which has a binding lease contract of more than 30 years, have caused more possibilities to be considered. In 2015, PSG even considered demolishing the stadium and rebuilding it, but Paris flatly refused.
Although at first glance it seemed that the Stade France, owned by the French State, was the number one option, according to Le Parisien there are not, nor do they seem to be, negotiations between PSG and the Executive to negotiate the sale of the premises. A hippodrome in Saint-Cloud, very close to the Parc des Princes, and Poissy, a town close to Paris, are other possibilities that Al-Khelaïfi has in mind. In fact, the mayor of the city would be delighted to host PSG.
To this we must add a new training center, in Ivelines, Ile-de-France, which will open in 2023, just one year after the starting gun of the Paris Olympic Games. The perimeter will have 74 hectares spread over three levels that will also house 17 soccer fields, four of them with heating systems inside. It is not ruled out, in turn, that PSG build a new stadium in this enclosure, which is located in Poissy, in the town of Yvelines, if you do not find offers that satisfy you far from the Parc des Princes.
