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.
and would be a shame to lose Anfield.
Hopefully, There’s a better way around that even if it means a sizable acquiring of roads/homes etc. Provided it’s needed. Understand it’s not possible now. But who knows what’s the requirement some 25 years into the future.
Hope that helps.
After all the money they’ve just spent on Anfield renovations? 2050 isn’t really that far away. Maybe 2100.
By 2100 our home stadium will be Macau
Also , are they really that confident of filling a 100,000 capacity ground week in week out ?
I actually think there is an upper limit on stadium size. The infrastructure around Anfield won’t support a 100k stadium in Stanley Park. I do expect they will do feasibility studies into how to expand at some point.
We probably need an 80k limit with current demand. People talk about that list but how many on that list would continue their membership and considering the club has to come out and encourage people not to leave their seats empty you wonder.
I remember up to about 2019 under Klopp you could get tickets if you followed the additional member sales.
We were chasing down the title and won the CL that season.
There are season tickets that have been effectively passed down like family heirlooms. It’s quite possible that many of those on the waiting list for tickets are actually using the ticket from great-uncle Jack, now aged 136.
I know they cleared it up a while back but I’m on it and if I ever got to go I’m not sure how I’d do it.
Oh, there’s a suggestion there all right - ‘centerpiece of the regeneration of the Old Trafford area’ is billionaire-speak for ‘I want the taxpayer to fund this’