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mesmerised
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those spirals look ugly, looks like someone's thrown an old women's hair net over the stadium whilst leaving in the pins

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By:
spyker
When: 11 Mar 25 11:35
I do hope it doesn't interfere with the successful rebuilding of the entire squad over the next 20 years or so.
By:
Steve Voltage
When: 11 Mar 25 12:37
Looks like a stadium from Saudi Arabia.

Maybe thinking of hosting future Ede celebrations?
By:
ALIEN SEX FIEND
When: 11 Mar 25 12:48
Maybe the Glazers had a plan to the stadium down to do this. How long before they use the new stadium as collateral.
By:
ALIEN SEX FIEND
When: 11 Mar 25 12:49
++run the stadium down++
By:
ALIEN SEX FIEND
When: 11 Mar 25 12:51
Serious question, Ratcliffe and Gary Neville, only part listened, was this mentioned?
By:
SirNorbertClarke
When: 11 Mar 25 13:01
£2bn
By:
mecca
When: 11 Mar 25 13:04
Like Spurs did, they could play their matches at Wembley whilst the new ground is being built..

.. That would also save their fans on the long journey to Manchester
By:
ALIEN SEX FIEND
When: 11 Mar 25 13:06
Mecca LaughLaughLaugh
By:
mesmerised
When: 11 Mar 25 14:08
it's a real eye sore.

It doesn't look futuristic, looks like a relic to the industrial past or some kid let loose on photoshop.

Madrid's new stadium is what it's all about.

Kind Regards.
By:
Crisp77
When: 11 Mar 25 17:56
I hope I'm around the see the New Old Trafford become the Old New Old Trafford.
By:
SirNorbertClarke
When: 11 Mar 25 17:57
It strikes me it's different for difference sake.

It looks like an oversized mosque.
By:
Crisp77
When: 11 Mar 25 17:57

Mar 11, 2025 -- 5:57PM, SirNorbertClarke wrote:


It strikes me it's different for difference sake.It looks like an oversized mosque.


Everyone will be fasting when they see the food prices Shocked

By:
SirNorbertClarke
When: 11 Mar 25 18:09
Can't beat a pie barm from Lou Macari's
By:
TheBetterBettor
When: 11 Mar 25 18:45
40k more than umpteenth redeveloped Shedfield...


What you gonna do....


build another stand on top of another stand at the crumblebowl?...Crazy
By:
The Dragon
When: 11 Mar 25 19:08
anyone know how the 2 billion costs are being funded?
By:
glasshouses dogman
When: 11 Mar 25 19:19
Water companies being privatised was supposed to be good for us. What happened? Infrastructure often neglected,large borrowing and all the time owners getting paid dividends. Now things difficult and us the consumers will end up footing the bill to put things right. Just received my latest water bill - ouch, correct that make it a big ouch!

Look at Man Utd, things neglected, now loaded up with expensive debt and with the owners getting their nice dividends. Financially not in a good position with consumers (fans having ticket prices raised) and staff cuts bearing the brunt of what is happening to improve things. If this development goes ahead who will most of the eventual costs fall on. The British taxpayer, that being local and/or national? Fans? Will it give the owners a very valuable asset without them having to put much of their own money? Just wonder how much the Glazer family have taken out in dividends compared to what it has actually cost them in total in their overall financial outlay in buying the club?

Would we see a large public cost with the owners reaping long term large dividends?
By:
SirNorbertClarke
When: 11 Mar 25 19:19
anyone know how the 2 billion costs are being funded?


I believe Jim Ratcliffe is going to follow Clarky9s EFL Football Tipping Thread  LaughLaugh
By:
FATTIEWHITEYSLOVEADRINK
When: 11 Mar 25 19:30
**** me just seen news
Thought the news segment was
Zippo Circus
lol

Man U new high top 
For trapeze act
By:
----you-have-to-laugh---
When: 11 Mar 25 19:41
Government given money to local mayor, so he can allocate funds
and government can claim to have not directly funded the stadium
with tax payer monets.




Many #NUFC fans have been in touch about the Government's 'support' for the @ManUtd Old Trafford redevelopment so I asked the Minister to clarify what I thought was true -  there is no direct funding from Government.

https://x.com/ChiOnwurah/status/1897287704045310447?s=19

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By:
brassneck
When: 11 Mar 25 19:49
And the UNITED fans were giving out about THE GLAZER BROTHERS and SIR JIM ,and now they are going to spend two billion quid for their fans."they can't be that bad,if they are going to spend 2 billion quid.Devil
By:
brassneck
When: 11 Mar 25 21:49
proposed name=THE GLAZER STADIUMGrin
By:
no-won-sun
When: 11 Mar 25 23:13
Another season like this and maybe they will reach an agreement to share a ground with Altrincham or Mossley
By:
----you-have-to-laugh---
When: 11 Mar 25 23:31
https://x.com/OneKneePedro/status/1899426883747348614?s=19

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By:
Racingqueen
When: 11 Mar 25 23:49
Disregard that its Man Utd ok and its an absolute disgrace. That thing is a total eyesore. It looks atrocious.

That idiot Grim Ratcliffe was claiming it could be seen from 40km like that was something to be proud of.
By:
thelatarps
When: 12 Mar 25 00:49
The takeaways from this is that...
...well...
United aint gonna be winning no Premier Leagues anytime soon.

Spurs new spanking stadium has led us from being champions league regulars to relegation fodder.
The Ersenal went from Invicibles to needing Arteta to rescuing them almost 20 years on.

And if you look to the States..
The teams who Man Utd probably look to as the biggest sports franchises in world sport, namely the Yankees and the Dallas Cowboys..
THey have been pretty average since their new revenue making citadels were constructed 15 years ago.

Ratcliff & the Glazers will probably make so much dosh from this new venture that they won't give a rats backside about performances on the field.
This new Trafford is going to be a mega-priced tourist attraction.
All those United fans brandishing the Norwich scarves are likely to melt away into obscurity when faced with what appears to be coming down the pipe.
Thats progress for you...
By:
comingupthehill
When: 12 Mar 25 02:06
Like all millionaire/billionaire businessmen,they’re the first with their hand out for free stuff.
Sniffing Trafford park is being developed,he’s jumped on the gravy train.

The government have said,no tax payer money will be spent on man united ground.so this will be quietly dropped,when Ratcliffe realises he has to pay for it.

United don’t really need it anyway.

The madness of releasing this bullshot, after his embarrassing interview with Neville,he’s either deluded or desperate.

So the £27.46 Jim has saved,by making staff bring their own butties to work,will be banked,towards the 2 billion to pay for the stadium,please fast forward to 2028,so we can get trump in to sort it out,so we can have a bueatiful stadium.

How the fook did this idiot make money or run a business,but as he told Neville look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.has he opens his car boot to get 3 empty plastic water bottles out,telling the new catering manager,wash these out and fill them up with water so the players can drink them in training.chris froome gave them to me from our Ineos days,the French public threw them at him,full of p iss,but cos I run a tight ship,he kept them.make sure you wash them.

Smug in his deluded believe,that running a football club is like running any business,we just need to cut our cloth accordingly.

When asked was Chris froome on 400k a week,but rode for another team,but you still paid him.

He stated,don’t be stupid,that’s crazy,no one would operate like that.i didn’t make my millions buying doing stuff like this.

So Jim.
When the glaziers say they’ve no money,and the government say,nowt to do with us,how will you solve this dilemma.

Me and my team will focus on this,we will have conference calls as I drive down the m6 each week to drop of 100k to villa towards rashfords wage,with my buttys the wife prepared.

No one gets a free lunch,has he said,he doesn’t ,so why should the cleaner.

All you can eat banquets are obviously available to all the players day or night.but wash these bottles,has they might have p iss in them.

This should be fun.

The irony is,he ll probably succeed,because their customer base is endless and they ain’t shopping anywhere else.
By:
bungalow bill
When: 12 Mar 25 07:51
It might look nice in Dubai or Riyadh, but on a cold windy and wet January night in Manchester, I don't think so.

Wouldn't even keep the rain off, but that's nothing new.

The worst thing  is, it looks cheap. 2 billion my arce, as someone once said.
By:
SirNorbertClarke
When: 12 Mar 25 09:04
Just the 2 points;

Who the f**k needs to harvest rain water in Manchester?

Has anyone thought of the shadow that netting is going to throw on to the pitch?
By:
SirNorbertClarke
When: 12 Mar 25 09:07
The worst thing  is, it looks cheap.

Hit the nail on the head
By:
Racingqueen
When: 12 Mar 25 09:50
Its an ugly monstrosity. It sums up Sir Grim Ratcliffe. Cheap nasty trash.

Look at the history of the North and it could have been incorporated into the design. The red brick terrace houses/chimneys of the North of England.
I thought something like Lukas Oil stadium in Indianapolis would have been decent.

I can only imagine locals will go mad over this. No way anyone would want to live near that hideous mess
By:
DirkDiggler
When: 12 Mar 25 12:26
It looks like a pavlova and they'll be paying it off for 10 years at least. Ticket prices will go thru the roof to price out the "legacy fans" they don't want, to be replaced by the tourists who will spend spend spend on club tat.
By:
duffy
When: 12 Mar 25 14:41
What made me laugh is when the designer bloke spoke of those towers and referred to them as the trident as if it was obviousLaughLaugh
By:
brassneck
When: 12 Mar 25 18:04
WHEN will this new english home for TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS be completedLaugh
By:
SirNorbertClarke
When: 12 Mar 25 18:10
It will almost certainly be multifunctional, Soccer, football, Rugby, boxing, MMA, tiddlywinks, marbles
By:
SirNorbertClarke
When: 12 Mar 25 18:11
WHEN will this new english home for TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS be completed

2030, they want to break ground this year.
By:
brassneck
When: 12 Mar 25 18:28
Tuesday 1st January 2030 .1756 days to go.they better get started.Laugh
By:
SirNorbertClarke
When: 12 Mar 25 18:42
I expect they'll have a webcam feed

Only £10 a minute Wink
By:
DirkDiggler
When: 14 Mar 25 12:02
And if you look to the States..
The teams who Man Utd probably look to as the biggest sports franchises in world sport, namely the Yankees and the Dallas Cowboys..
THey have been pretty average since their new revenue making citadels were constructed 15 years ago.



Not buying this, as neither team has been restricted in their spending due to stadium payments, in particular Dallas in the NFL with the salary cap. NYY used to be best run team on top of all the spending they're now light years behind teasm like the Dodgers in terms of organisational strength.

This stadium will be huge handicap to man utd though, their finacial edge has been diminishing in recent years and they're a complete clown show as an organisation.
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