New Stadium or Revamp Old Trafford

[klayton88]

Which has nothing to do with Ratcliffe. And he acknowledged how much of a mess the stadium is by his actions. Ratcliffe walked through the door and instantly assembled a team headed by Sebastian Coe to explore a new stadium project. That tells you everything you need to know.

BUT WHERE IS THE NEW STADIUM?

 

[tentan]

Just build a new one already.

Lets be honest Old trafford is a dump nowadays.

 

[NewGlory]

The famous Old Trafford waterfall

 

[Frank Grimes]

The Theatre of Streams.

Players walked on to This Is The One, walked off to Waterfall.

 

[Waynne]

Revamp or new stadium, I don't care. Just please install some new rain gutters at the very least because the latest videos on social media are embarrassing for a club like United.

 

[SecondFig]

Would Wembley/The FA allow it though?

Old Trafford is a prime spot still for semi finals but semi finals at Wembley are a big money maker for the FA, that’s why we have them there sadly.

Plus Wembley is a neutral stadium - it'd be very different having a club stadium that is suddenly given some weird kind of official national status. Be different if it was part of a wider move to decentralise (though I agree with RAB, why would the FA allow all that money to go elsewhere) - with national status granted to stadia in the northeast, midlands, northwest etc..

 

[Stadjer]

The famous Old Trafford waterfall

With 55m it is the fourth tallest waterfall in the UK. Only behind Cauldron Snout (60m), Canonteign Falls (70m) and Cautley Spout (76m)

Read that on social media earlier and thought it was funny

 

[singhters]

Its been leaking for a few seasons now, how can you not do the usual maintenance and give the place an overhaul over the summers ?

Just sums it all up, the neglect is incredible.

 

[Chipper]

Disappointing that no pissed up madlad decided to take a shower in the waterfall.

 

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[Terrific Tangerine]

Might be time to reset the poll. I think this event may have significantly shifted opinions.

 

[SAF is the GOAT]

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[bosskeano]

apparently they have a committee that is looking at the rain flooding issue but changes aren't expected to be made structurally until possibly July

 

[wolvored]

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Thats it a trip to B&Q a tin of red paint and everythings ticketty boo again.

 

[matt10000]

Oh wow, the new arena holds 79,000 people?

That not enough

 

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I presume this is as well as the freight terminal still being there?

 

[711]

I presume this is as well as the freight terminal still being there?

As one of the comments says, if United were to build a large modern new stadium next to the existing one they would need all that land to do it. Any new platforms would be adjacent to the current track, not veering off into the middle of the plot as shown. I'm not saying they will be able to use any of that land, just if they could.

 

[Nori-]

Great move if its true.

The nearby tram station really is'nt built for thousands of people all trying to get out of the area at once.

The question is, how long until all these plans start to take shape? Probably 2040 at the earliest with the pace we operate at

 

[noodlehair]

Its a lot of noise as usual

It really doesn't take that long to employ an engineer to assess the roof and then work out how to get it fixed. It just requires a billionaire to spend a bit of his money.

It is also something that should be done immediately regardless of if the plan is for a new stadium or not, in case along with the leaking water a bit of the roof decides to come down on someone's head.