Manchester United have unveiled plans to construct a “state-of-the-art” 100,000-capacity stadium adjoining to Outdated Trafford, which they are saying will price £2billion and could possibly be completed inside 5 years.
The Pink Devils have been trying to renovate or depart their iconic Outdated Trafford dwelling, the place they’ve performed since 1910, for a number of years.
Following an in depth session course of, they’ve appointed architects Foster and Companions to design the challenge, which the membership says will function an “umbrella design” and a public plaza “twice the dimensions of Trafalgar Sq.”.
United have but to say how they plan to pay for the stadium, after part-owner Jim Ratcliffe mentioned on Monday that the membership would have run out of cash this yr if not for a sequence of controversial cost-cutting measures.
Ratcliffe instructed the membership’s web site: “At present marks the beginning of an extremely thrilling journey to the supply of what would be the world’s biggest soccer stadium, on the centre of a regenerated Outdated Trafford.
“Our present stadium has served us brilliantly for the previous 115 years, nevertheless it has fallen behind one of the best arenas in world sport.
“By constructing subsequent to the present web site, we will protect the essence of Outdated Trafford, whereas creating a really state-of-the-art stadium that transforms the fan expertise, solely footsteps from our historic dwelling.”
Legendary former supervisor Alex Ferguson mentioned: “Manchester United ought to at all times attempt for one of the best in all the things it does, on and off the pitch, and that features the stadium we play in.
“Outdated Trafford holds so many particular reminiscences for me personally, however we have to be courageous and seize this chance to construct a brand new dwelling, match for the longer term, the place new historical past might be made.”
