Roma President James Pallotta called for fans to “demand action” after city officials refused to even meet for the Stadio della Roma project.
This evening, Pallotta posted a message via the official Roma website.
“Stadium Update: Sent senior stadium staff from Boston to Rome hoping to make progress but city officials were too busy to meet.
“Maybe new stadium, big investment & lots of new jobs in Rome is not that important. If fans want a new stadium, they need to demand action.”
Roma President James Pallotta called for fans to “demand action” after city officials refused to even meet for the Stadio della Roma project.
This evening, Pallotta posted a message via the official Roma website.
“Stadium Update: Sent senior stadium staff from Boston to Rome hoping to make progress but city officials were too busy to meet.
“Maybe new stadium, big investment & lots of new jobs in Rome is not that important. If fans want a new stadium, they need to demand action.”
It is a real change of tack from Pallotta, who had said at the Sports Decision Makers Summit in Miami only a few days ago that “we hope to have approvals wrapped up by June and then to open the stadium in mid-2022.”
The issue hit another massive obstacle when a corruption scandal involving one of the many people who gave the all-clear to the plans prompted calls to cancel all his votes.
There is growing dissent within the local council about whether helping Roma to build a new stadium is in the public interest at all.
The arena has been planned since the moment he took over the club, but looks no closer to completion, as after several years of debates over the location, cost and requirements of the structure, it could all got back to the drawing board.
Pallotta: “Stadium Update: Sent senior stadium staff from Boston to Rome hoping to make progress but city officials were too busy to meet. Maybe new stadium, big investment & lots of new jobs in Rome is not that important. If fans want a new stadium, they need to demand action.” pic.twitter.com/hPW2fHOYcu
— AS Roma English (@ASRomaEN) May 8, 2019