That is the crisp part of the announcement. Before the public has even seen the full images, the building already has the name that will sit on its exterior.
The clubs also sketched the kind of arena they want. Football Italia reported a “basin shape,” steep stands intended to preserve sightlines from every seat, and a structure built on a raised podium. The first tier is expected to be divided into two parts, with 11,500 seats in each curva.
Even in outline, that sounds like a stadium designed to press the crowd toward the pitch rather than drift into sculptural vagueness. Steep bowls usually mean noise, proximity and a more severe kind of spectacle. A podium can create grandeur, but it can also make a stadium feel slightly lifted away from the life around it. For now, that tension is still abstract; the renderings remained under embargo as initial details emerged from the press conference at the Sforzesco Castle.
What the clubs have, then, is a branded concept with some architectural language attached to it. What they do not have yet is a finished stadium. Football Italia said Inter and Milan hope to begin construction in 2027 and complete it by 2031, in time to serve as one of the host venues when Italy shares Euro 2032 duties with Turkiye.
Stadium projects are often announced in the language of inevitability long before the most difficult part begins. For now, the clearest confirmed feature of San Siro’s successor is the one on the outside: Generali Stadium.
Marcus Azzopardi 
Dua Mifsud