Sir Jim Ratcliffe he wants to make it beautiful Manchester United. In addition to the space procurement campaign, the minority shareholder of Red Devils has taken over the management of the company in several respects, including the future facility of the team coached by Erik ten Hag. The billionaire owner of INEOS in fact said that “what we intend to do is work on the restructuring, which is the obvious thing and the one we know we can afford”.
In the interview given to Sky Sports UKthe United owner explained that the focus will be more on Old Trafford redevelopment and not about building a new stadium. In the wake of what was done in Madrid with the Santiago Bernabeu: “We will put together a small task force of people who have useful opinions and explore whether a bigger project makes sense,” Ratcliffe explained. Continuing: “From what we have seen of the stadium so far, there is a really good case for renovating Old Trafford, probably at a cost of around £1bn, or something like that. You end up with a big stadium, probably 80 or 90,000 seats,” he admitted.
“It’s not perfect because you’re modifying a stadium,” the shareholder continued, “which is right next to a railway line and things like that, so it’s not an ideal world. But you end up with a very good solution. Manchester United needs a stadium worthy of one of the biggest clubs in the world and at the moment, it’s not that.” As for the possibility of erecting a new plant Ratcliffe instead wants a new “northern stadium”. To revitalise the area of the city: “You could play the FA Cup final and it wouldn’t all be centred around the south of England. In an ideal world, absolutely, that’s where I’d like to be, but you have to be practical in life.”