On the days of the famous “Theater of Dreams”, as is popularly known to the stadium of Old Trafford, Manchester United HouseThey are counted. The English club He announced on Tuesday his plan to put the curtain to his ancient housewhich hosts its matches since 1910, to replace it with “the biggest stadium in the world.”
As announced by United himself, the objective is to build A new stadium of 100,000 seats Next to the land occupied by the current Old Trafford, with a work that will cost 2,000 million pounds and will result in the largest sports venue in Great Britain.
“Today begins an incredibly exciting trip towards the delivery of what will be the largest football stadium in the world, at the center of an regenerated Old Trafford,” he explained in a statement on the web and club networks United’s co -owner, Jim Ratcliffe, the richest businessman in the country.
An old desire of the owner of the INEOS multinational will be fulfilled, who had not hidden his desire to build a new and modern “Wembley del Norte” from the moment he became a minority owner in February last year.
Spectacular Norman Foster design
To carry out the project, the club hired ‘Foster+Partners’ last September to develop a master plan for the area around Old Trafford as part of a regeneration project.
Now Manchester United has announced, during an event in London, the architectural designs for the new stadium, which will have an umbrella design. «It has to be one of the most exciting projects in the world today», Has declared the famous architect Norman Foster, executive president of ‘Foster+Partners’, in a statement. “Everything begins with the experience of fans, bringing them closer to the field and acoustically cultivating a huge roar.”
«The stadium is contained by a huge umbrella, which collects energy and rainwater, and protects A new public square that is twice the size of Trafalgar Square», Explains the statement. With this area the club intends to have a space for their fans to meet and be able to organize events beyond football, in the style of what Real Madrid intends to do in the renewed Bernabéu thanks to its retractable grass.
The new stadium will be only part of the broader regeneration of the Old Trafford area, to which British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves has recently given government support. To convince it, the fact that the club ensures that the project could create up to 92,000 new jobs and will lead to the construction of 17,000 homes, and will involve 7.3 billion additional pounds per year for the British economy for the British economy.
Old Trafford, current Manchester United stadium, is the largest stadium in a club in England with 74,140 seats, but has not had any important remodeling since 2006 and has not stopped having problems in recent years, from a roof through which huge leaks are filtered or even a plague of rodents.
Near the financial disaster
It contrasts the announcement of the new stadium with the latest statements of Ratcliffe himself, which in two interviews granted to the ‘BBC’ and ‘The Times’ He detailed the delicate economic situation that is going through the one who was the flagship club of English football a few years ago.
According to the tycoon, Manchester United lost more than 464 million euros in the last seven years and could have broken at Christmas if measures had not been taken about it.
«In simple terms, United was spending more money than I was earning in the last seven years. If you do this for a prolonged period, you would end up in a very difficult place, and in the United that place was at the end of this season. At the end of 2025 the United would have run out of money. It is the first time we say this in public, but it is a fact, ”said Ratcliffe.
As an example of the excesses that were committed in the United economy, the billionaire shared that “we discovered that we had even a sign language advisor that charged 206,000 euros a year.”
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