New Stadium | 100k Stadium to be built - design visualisation released

Thoughts on the design?

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Nothing iconic about it, it looks cheap, and awful, but I guess clowns need a circus tent. Devastated that the Glazers and Ineos have discarded OT so completely.

At least it’ll be the best stadium in the championship.

Devastated that OT will be no more. This is the most depressed I’ve felt looking at the club in 40 years.
 
Interesting that the Glazers are nowhere to be seen when it comes to this project. Not even a quote from them on the website.
 
next_number_seven said:
Our average attendance and match day revenue will completely dwarf any other English club so they can have their jibes.

It's a pity they it's not a larger capacity than Camp Nou.
Then we could legitimately say we're the biggest club in the world.
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Exactly, there is an air of envy there. It quite clearly would be the best stadium in the country.

Not overly fussed about beating the Camp Nou, this will be right up there with the best if we are allowed to have it.
 
big_jeffstar said:
This forum constantly reminds me how so much of our fanbase will find any reason at all to be negative.. I’m sure they’re all secretly happy when the rain falls through the roof.. get in! another reason to have a moan on Redcafe.
It’s like that bloke on the fast show..
“Bruno?….rubbish…..Ruben Amorim?? Ruben Amorwhat? .. rubbish!
100,000 seater state of the art stadium? .. that’s rubbish…”
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siw2007 said:
Exactly, there is an air of envy there. It quite clearly would be the best stadium in the country.

Not overly fussed about beating the Camp Nou, this will be right up there with the best if we are allowed to have it.
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Rival fans online are fuming which makes me like it even more.

"They can't afford it!!!!"
 
Not the design I was expecting at all, but I suppose the "umbrella" covering creates the vast fan space they wanted.

I'm on the fence. The design feels like it belongs at the Qatar World Cup rather than Manchester. Plus the 'trident' with the spacehship structure reminds me too much of the radio tower from the Liverpool skyline.

I'm optimistic. As much as losing Old Trafford is heartbreaking, a new stadium was always inevitable.
 
Hopefully, the taxpayer will fund it.

Just because of who it will wind up.

Otherwise, meh. Looks like a won-ton and leaves us open to 'circus tent' taunts from rival idiots.
 
Not sure if I love it or hate it. It's not what I was expecting.

It does resemble the SoFi Stadium concept, which United's senior management team reportedly visited when exploring the options for the stadium project, so we should have guessed they would go with a design encompassing some kind of enormous roof canopy.

Berrada on the all-important question of how on earth will this be paid for: "we're looking at all the options. It's still very early days. We do see this as a very attractive investment opportunity, as part of the wider regeneration project. So, we're quite confident that we'll be able to find ways to finance it". That doesn't tell us much and it doesn't sound like they know much at this stage.

Real Name said:
The beginning of the work depends on government decision on regenerating the area?
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Yes. If the government doesn't come through on the wider project of the regeneration of south Manchester, this stadium will never be built. Ratcliffe and Berrada have been quite careful yesterday and today to frame this stadium project within the wider (and government funded) regeneration - without that, it won't be viable and they'll look to do a refurb of OT instead.
 
The price of a ticket will be aimed at one time visitors will be like the £500 a show they can charge in vegas. Looks amazing but 2 bn will become 2.5 and his 5 years will be 10 and that needs paying for. Will it be Tesla village or The Amazon
 
I actually really like it.

Just a shame we'll be playing the likes of Sheffield Wednesday in it.
 
It's pretty incredible, so different to anything I could have imagined. Loved the trident stands, and the tallest at 200m will look epic in person.
 
Design is definitely growing on me the more I see it. We’re obviously in the age of these hyper-structures when it comes to stadiums now and this one is definitely that. If you’re going to make something at least make it look interesting.

The adage ‘hated, adored but never ignored’ comes to mind.
 
Old Trafford hosted Champions League final in 2003 and then after 2 decades of neglect it's probably best to do something like this than try reconstructing the current stadium. Fans being close to pitch is best thing about it and guess it'll look impressive in many ways.

It's off-topic and it's not significant but what's the deal with lower attendance at OT over last few seasons? Until 2018/19 season average was 75 thousand and ever since it's more of 73,5k. In seasons 06/07 and 07/08 it was close to 76k. I know 1,5-2 thousands don't make a big difference, just curious.

Anyway, guess it'll be the end of Old Trafford after 120 years. Traditional stadiums like Upton Park, Goodison Park and Old Trafford are one of the reasons that made me personally like the Premier League more than other European leagues so it's a shame that those kind of stadiums are becoming thing of the past. On the other hand you can't be stuck in past and things change with time naturally.
 
Tom Van Persie said:
Can't really discuss it and it's not a pipe dream. I know it's hard for some of you to accept positive news but this is happening. Work should begin as soon as the government give the green light on the regeneration project. Foster says five years to build, no longer than 2032.

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The fact he says he is confident that the club will finda way to finance if suggests that they dont really know how its going to be financed at this point so it is very much a pipe dream, the chances of it being ready by 2032 are slim at this point as well.
 
U-N-I-T-E-D said:
Absolutely gutted.

It looks like a fecking circus tent. The 3 towers make it look utterly ridiculous, but of course, you can't have a football stadium without a revolving lift attraction. Absolutely fecking awful.

Gutted.
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Well at least you went from being absolutely gutted, to just being gutted.
 
It'll be very sad to leave Old Trafford but it is exciting that we'll have potentially the best stadium in Europe, and it'll dwarf the size of any other Premier League club.
 
Devil_forever said:
where have you got this number from?

Arsenal have over 10,000 for a 60,000 seat stadium, so ours seems low for a 100k. Spurs will have a much higher number as it's a more recent stadium.
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The press release has a number of stats and one of them was the percentage of hospitality seats was 15.5%
 
Atleast it's not generic. While we're doing towers, I wish we could do 3x Burj Khalifas to really make a statement. Also I want a season ticket in the tower platform so I can enjoy Michelin style meals while seeing feck all.
 
They’ve gone for something which most fans would have thought unimaginable, to something in reality is futuristic and imaginative.
Looks cool to me.
 
I was sort of open to a new stadium, but the outside design is horrible, definitely won’t feel natural given the surrounding area. Belongs somewhere in Qatar as opposed to Manchester. Tasteless crap.
 
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