In recent days, the mayor of Quartu had launched a torpedo at Cagliari: "He gets millions for the new stadium, but refuses to pay for Is Arenas," said Graziano Milia. And the president of the rossoblù club, Tommaso Giulini, replied , also opening a focus on the new stadium.

«Considering that on the ten-year Is Arenas affair we will now have to wait for the judgment of the Court of Cagliari and that the recent words of our administrator Carlo Catte have been very useful in providing a truthful reconstruction of the facts, I believe it is appropriate to make extreme clarity on a point recently touched upon by the mayor of Quartu Milia, i.e. that of an alleged public funding that would arrive in the coffers of Cagliari Calcio for the construction of the new Sant'Elia », writes Giulini in an official note. «It is essential to keep in mind - he underlines - that the balanced public contribution envisaged by the economic-financial plan is destined for project financing in which the successful tenderer of an international tender (also public and accessible to anyone) will obtain a fifty-year concession , at the end of which the plant will return to the full availability of the Municipality of Cagliari. A special club, currently made up of Costim and Cagliari, will participate in this tender and regardless of the outcome, which is far from obvious, the club will in any case be obliged to pay a substantial annual fee for the use of the new stadium, as imposed by any agreement for the concession of a public work".
Then he concludes: « These are fundamental and decisive aspects – concludes Giulini – if one believes one wants to comment and evaluate the question correctly, avoiding useless demagoguery. Finally, I want to point out that in Quartu various councils have alternated over the years and none of them has proved to be up to the task of managing the Is Arenas affair. The exact opposite of what happened in Cagliari where - from 2015 to today - on the project undertaken for the new Sant'Elia, the various majorities - albeit of different political colors - have never lacked collaboration and proactivity to move forward envisaged by the so-called "Stadiums Law" of 2013, making Sardinia and its capital a unique case in the Italian panorama in terms of designing sports infrastructures for football and for the city".

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