The English football record champion Manchester United wants to build a new stadium with 100,000 seats. The future venue of the sporty, crisisy British record champion is to be built right next to the 115 -year -old previous stadium Old Trafford, As the club announced. Designs for the new building were presented in the London office of the architects Foster + Partners. A final decision on the implementation is still pending.
The successor to the Old Trafford, which bears the nickname “Theater of Dreams” (theater of dreams), is to be covered by an umbrella, similar to the Munich Olympic Park. According to the BBC, the construction could cost £ 2.4 billion. It is not known how the major project of the highly indebted club is to be financed.
The new city would be Europe’s second largest arena – after the Camp Nou from FC Barcelona, which is to be expanded to 105,000 places in the coming years.
“Today an incredibly exciting journey to realize the world’s best football stadium begins,” United participant Sir Jim Ratcliffe was quoted. “Our current stadium has served us a great service in the past 115 years, but it has fallen behind the best arenas in world sports.” With the stadium building, the surrounding area also wants to revitalize, create jobs and living space, it said.
A renovation of the legendary, but for years dilapidated Old Trafford, had been in the room for a long time, like an extract. It was only in December Daily Mail reports on a mouse plague in company suites and a meal kiosk. Manchester United had claimed to have the conclusion that a new building makes more sense than a renovation.
The former success coach of the Red Devils, Sir Alex Ferguson, supported the plans. “Old Trafford personally harbors a lot of special memories for me, but we have to be brave and take this opportunity to build a new home for the future in which new history is written,” said Ferguson. “Manchester United should always strive for the best – on and off the square – and that also includes the stadium in which we play.”
The reigning English cup winner Manchester United is in 14th place in the Premier League after 28 match days and thus far behind his own ambitions.
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