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Inter president wants to buy San Siro Posted: Friday January 17, 2003 10:58 AMROME (Reuters) -- Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti has said he is prepared to buy the San Siro stadium so that the club can improve the playing surface. "I'm ready to buy the San Siro. Only through ownership of the stadium can we carry out works on the roof that will improve the state of the pitch," he was quoted as saying in the Milan edition of Corriere della Sera on Friday. The state of the San Siro pitch has been a cause of concern for some time and several Inter players have spoken out about the lumpy surface. In December striker Hernan Crespo complained that the ball jumped about as though it had a rabbit in it whenever they played at their home ground. Crespo is currently out until April with a thigh injury sustained when he slipped and fell at the San Siro during his side's 2-0 win over Modena last weekend. Ownership of Italy's football stadiums is a controversial issue. Most of the country's big stadiums are owned by city councils, and shared by two teams, a situation that irks clubs such as Inter, who are not allowed to develop commercial facilities inside the grounds. The Rome-based sports daily Corriere dello Sport is currently campaigning to give AS Roma and Lazio the right to buy the Stadio Olimpico. So far they have met with a frosty reception from the city council. Inter may have more luck. Milan's Sports Assessor, Aldo Brandirali, told Corriere della Sera he was in favor of selling the ground. "I've been promoting the idea," he told the paper on Thursday. "We can make 100 million euros (US$106.5 million) out of a sale."
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