Manchester United leaning towards leaving Old Trafford and building new 100,000 capacity stadium

Manchester United are edging towards building a caller stadium adjacent to Old Trafford astatine a costs of astir £2billion.

A stadium taskforce, created by number proprietor Jim Ratcliffe and chaired by Sebastian Coe, has met 4 times pinch nan little of determining whether nan nine should redevelop nan existing stadium aliases move.

And while nary definitive determination has been made – that will travel by nan extremity of nan twelvemonth – respective reports this greeting suggested nan attraction has been connected building a caller 100,000-seater crushed from scratch.

It would beryllium erected adjacent to nan existent stadium, enabling United to proceed generating existing gross levels alternatively than having to adjacent sections while building activity was carried out.

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Several issues relating to renovating Old Trafford, which has been nan club’s location since 1910, see a railway statement that runs crossed nan backmost of nan Sir Bobby Charlton Stand.

Who will salary for it?

The astir contentious rumor will beryllium really nan caller build is funded.

Ratcliffe has said antecedently he would for illustration to usage taxpayers’ money and build a ‘Wembley of nan North’ that would use nan wider area.

He told nan BBC successful February: “If it tin beryllium achieved (with taxpayers’ money), it would intelligibly beryllium my preference.

“I would beryllium very excited for nan northbound of England. Trafford Park is wherever nan business gyration began. If you look astatine that region of Manchester coming – only a mile from nan centre – it is tired and neglected and parts are rather tally down.

“There is rather a large argument, successful my view, for regenerating that full southbound broadside of Manchester. The nucleus of it would beryllium building a caller world-class state-of-the-art stadium which could return England games, nan FA Cup final, Champions League finals. It could service nan northbound of England.”

Will United get nan greenish light?

It is highly improbable that Ratcliffe will get his wish though caller Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer has suggested nationalist money could beryllium utilized to amended carrier links and infrastructure astir nan stadium site.

United are believed to person looked astatine different awesome sports stadia astir nan world for inspiration and information, including nan revamped Santiago Bernabeu and Camp Nou, arsenic good arsenic SoFi successful Los Angeles, wherever they mislaid 2-1 to Arsenal successful a pre-season crippled connected Saturday night.

SoFi took six years to build, from conception to completion, and that is nan timeframe United are besides moving to.