Manchester United plans to build a new 100,000 capacity stadium instead of re -development of his current home in Old Trafford.
United announced the ambitious plans on Tuesday, with the selection of the London Partners Architectural Engineering Company to lead the project.
The new building will be placed on Old Trafford, as part of a wider renovation of the Trafford Wharfside area. The club said in a press statement that the new stadium and renewal project has the ability to provide an additional amount of 7.3 billion pounds (9.7 billion dollars) for the local economy, and creates 92,000 job opportunities and build more than 17,000 new homes, in addition to leading 1.8 million additional visitors annually.
The Old Trafford Regeneration, which was created to review the options of the stadium and renewal project, held a final meeting on Friday before standing.
Digital projects were revealed for what the new stadium and the surrounding area would look like by Foster + Partners on Tuesday. This included the umbrella of a three -sided stadium inspired by Red Devils Trident on the club’s emblem. The club said that the conceptual images and size models will now provide “a major plan for more feasibility, consultation, design and planning as the project enters a new stage.”
While it has been determined that the re -developed Old Trafford capacity could reach 87,000, it has been shown that the new construction can accommodate up to 100,000 supporters.
A survey of United supporters last year determined that 52 percent of fans who asked to be in favor of building a new stadium from the zero point, while 31 percent preferred to re -development.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, co -owner of the club, said in the statement: “Today it represents the beginning of an incredibly exciting journey to hand over what will be the greatest football field in the world, at the Old Trafford Center Al -Mujadila.”
“We have served our current stadium brilliantly over the past 115 years, but it has fallen behind the best squares in the sports world. By building next to the current site, we will be able to maintain the essence of Old Trafford, with the creation of a really modern stadium that transforms the fan experience only from our historical home.”
“With the same importance, the opportunity for a new stadium to be a catalyst for the social and economic renewal of the Old Trafford region, which creates jobs and investment not only during the construction phase but on a permanent basis when the stadium area is completed. The government has set investment in infrastructure as a strategic priority, especially in northern England, and we are proud to support that task with this project of national, as well as local, as well as local.”
Ratcliffe expects a “five-year project instead of 10 years” with the planned “standard construction”-where the structures are built elsewhere and shipped-designed to reduce the construction time significantly.
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The work team presented its options report in search of the benefits of both the new construction and the stadium that was re -developed earlier this year.
The report concluded that although both options will provide transformational benefits for the club as well as TrafFord and beyond, “these benefits will be” inflated under the new construction option. “
“Our goal in the long run as a club is to get the best football team in the world at the best stadium in the world,” said CEO Omar Perrada. “We are grateful for the feasibility work carried out by the Old Trafford renewal to explore the options of the future of Old Trafford.
“We carefully thought about its results, along with the opinions of thousands of local fans and residents and concluded that the new stadium is the right path to Manchester United and our surrounding community. We will now start more consultation to ensure the continued hearing of fans and residents as we move towards final decisions.”
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“Manchester United should always seek to achieve the best in everything he does, inside and outside the field, and that includes the stadium in which we play,” said Sir Alex Ferguson, the former club director and winner of the 13 Premier League title.
Finance is still an important question mark, as the cost of a newly built stadium is estimated at more than two million pounds. As mentioned before Athlete In June, United will consider selling naming rights to their new homes to help pay the price of the project.
“As PLC, we cannot speculate a lot about financing,” Perrada told a press conference with journalists in London after Tuesday’s announcement. “What I will say is to be the opportunity to invest is very attractive. We are very confident that we will find a way to finance the stadium.”
Manchester United Supporters Trust (Must) welcomed plans, but raised concerns and need to consult with fans with the formation.
“It is clear that the announcement of plans to build a new stadium adjacent to the Old Trafford is very large news for the UNITED fans. Everyone wants greater and better for our clubs and the visuals seem amazing and exciting. More questions than to give clear answers, “said the spokesperson.
“If they are able to produce an amazing new stadium as the plans indicate without harming the atmosphere, without walking in ticket prices and without damaging investment elsewhere, this may be very exciting. But until the questions are answered, our optimism about the plans to make Old Trafford is the largest and best again will be bound with caution about the consequences of fans.”
“The main question is how this will be paid.”
Manchester United correspondent analysis Lori and Whitueel
This result was delayed as soon as Saar Ratcliffe is in the Old Trafford. Last July in Los Angeles, United’s characters talked about the possibility of obtaining a new stadium of 100,000 capacities and Ratcliffe’s desire was clear at that time.
There is definitely an attractiveness between the “New Trafford” base – especially with the urban renewal plan besides – but the opinion is not unanimously and many people will be sad because there is a land carrying many memories.
However, Ferguson’s support for the project, after being cut as an ambassador, is noticeable given that he created a lot of those moments engraved in the club’s awareness.
The main question is how the construction will be paid for: get more debt, by care, or by injecting money by INEOS? High ticket prices may seem inevitable in this scenario, but very careful caution should not be priced.
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The actual design of the stadium is also very important. Old Trafford, for all his mistakes, has a personality and history. Many clubs struggled when moving to new stadiums. Can some architecture be kept?
Ratcliffe descends from Bernabeu from Real Madrid and Barcelona camp, but these two foundations were renewed on their original sites.
“Everything starts with the experience of the fans, which makes them closer than ever to the stadium and planting a huge roar. The stadium is contained by a vast umbrella, the harvest of energy and rain water, and an explanation of a new public square that includes twice the size of the field of the parties,” said Lord Norman Foster, founder of Foster + Partners.
Keeping supporters close to the stadium is necessary to keep this link to work.
But the introductions developed by United are a major transformation from the current stadium and they will be very exciting. The tent at the top of the earth swing as a strange overlap in the landscape and what came before.
Naming rights deal and more debts?
Analysis by senior football news correspondent Matt Slater
“The naming rights deals are similar to free club money, and those who do not have simply leave the money on the table,” said Michael Weaver, an expert in the care deals that head the Consultative Evaluation Team at the London Collery Office. Athlete. “You just have to look at the United States, where almost every stadium has been named after the shepherd, to see it.
“If Manchester United sold the rights of the” Tarford “, our analysis indicates that they will get about 15 million pounds annually, but you can double that to a new stadium. Let’s deal with the rights of naming, to say, 10 years, will cover a large part of the construction costs and enable them to borrow the money to the rest at a better interest rate. I do not understand why they will not do the name of the name.”
Who or what is suitable for United’s new home? Will anyone use the new name?
It is difficult to answer these questions, and the united fans are divided – but Arsenal accredited to the UAE and it seems that Manchester City fans have no problem in contact with the house.
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“INEOS may be a more acceptable sponsor than someone else because Manchester United is already associated with INEOS, and it may indicate that Ratcliffe is fully committed and at long distances,” Wagleer suggests.
Our research indicates that British fans are no longer unlike the labeling rights deals as they were. Fans became happier financially with their clubs and know what it takes to compete on the field, especially if you are against competitors supported by sovereign wealth money. You have to press all the juice. “
So, the name deal will help, but what about the rest?
“It will be very expensive,” says Tim Williams, who was the group’s financial observer in United for five years until 2015.
“The debt is a very loaded term in United, but it is usually better to put any stadium debts on the club’s books or a club company. The club and the stadium are rarely working in the long term.”
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