Someone who is used to shooting fish in a barrel is suddenly presented with fly-fishing tackle?
There is a long line of businessmen who have success in a field that they understand failing in another that they don’t. However, from what I have seen of Ratcliffe, his MO is that a business that disregards health-and-safety and workers’ rights will be cheaper to run than one that complies. I wonder how that leaky roof is coming on?
Isn’t it also extensive use of government subsidies?
We piss blood to get our stadium capacity from 45k to 61k, they go from 74k to 100k.
It’s infuriating, but the thing that stops us going north of 60k and makes extending so hard is that Anfield is in a built up residential area. The club has rightly endured criticism in the past for how it has treated residents.
Old Trafford has no such concerns and it’s basically built on waste lands. They’ve been allow to endless extend because there are no major factors preventing it.
Yeah thank the Luftwaffe for that.
Though at this point in time why bother extending? Or building a new soulless bowl of a stadium.
It’s only taken several years to become very easy to buy a ticket.
I know yeah, we’ll see what happens in the future.
So, they were close to “going bust at Christmas” but they are now able to build a 100K stadium that costs two billion pounds? Those tea ladies they sacked really did a number on them when they negotiated their salaries.
Looks just like a circus, perfect for Utd 
That second video is giving Germânia vibes without the Nazis.
But yeah it looks like a circus tent and there seems little suggestion of how they pay for it.
So existing stadium has a leaky roof and a joke of a team. No problem, says architect people, we’ll incorporate an umbrella in the design and make it look like a circus.
‘Architects at Foster and Partners, who will design the project, said the stadium would feature an umbrella design’
Can’t help but get the same vibe as when Hicks and Gillett put out artists impressions of our new Stanley Park stadium and I thought, “yeah, that’s never going to happen.”
Yeah that’s what I’m feeling.
Wouldn’t surprise me if the government build a new transport infrastructure and the current thing still remains in place.
Really don’t see why they need a new stadium. The existing one has more than enough for a side playing championship style football.
Looks like Istanbul.
Its the same soulless bowl that everyone else has built but they’ve put a tarp over the top of it.
Most unrealistic part is the inside the stadium that shows United winning 3-0.
If I could get my damn time machine fixed I would take a trip to 2050 and I am pretty sure I would find a 100000 capacity stadium in Stanley Park.
Send in the clowns.
Blue sky seems to be routinely mocking it. If it’s going make itself look like a big tent at a fair it will be mind.
I am horrified that he has proposed this and got this far in the proposal process and and got so little push back. Leaving Old Trafford would be a disgrace. If the stadium was really not at a point where it suited their needs then heaven and earth should be moved to figure out how to make it so without moving. Especially as most of the logistical issues other clubs with their old stadiums doesnt really apply to Utd and OT.
The rationale I have seen used seems incredibly weak for walking away from such an iconic part of the football that has been there for over 100 years and it’s difficult to see it as anything other than a calculation that retaining the legacy of the club is worth less than some play where government funds are leveraged to get the club stadium that does what he wants.
From what I’ve read about government support it is solely for infrastructure. I assume this is his attempt to bully them into giving funds… will it work who knows but it’s not going down well in places.