Rebuild or renovate is the pressing question with Old Trafford, Man Utd's 114-year-old stadium that has been neglected.
New Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe insists it is a "no-brainer" to rebuild Old Trafford, which he has described as "run down" and "neglected".
United would also be hit by reduced capacity crowds, as they were when the north stand, now the Sir Alex Ferguson Stand, was rebuilt in 1995. "In an ideal world, I think it's a no-brainer," Ratcliffe told the Manchester Evening News. "In an ideal world, you want a stadium in the north, a stadium of the north, which would be a world-class stadium where England could play and you could have the FA Cup Final and it's not all centred around the south of England.
"What we can see so far - we haven't had much time - what we've seen of the stadium so far: there is a really good case to refurbish Old Trafford, probably about £1billion in cost, or something like that. "There's this wider conversation with the community as to whether you could use a more ambitious project on site as a catalyst to regenerate that Old Trafford area, which is quite an interesting area in a way because it was the heart of the Industrial Revolution, it is the oldest industrial park in Europe, it was the first industrial park in Europe. It's where the Industrial Revolution began. And it's still one of the biggest ones.
Ratcliffe outlined the case for a potential national stadium to rival Wembley that is based in the north. "The people in the north pay their taxes like the people in the south pay their taxes," he stressed. "But where's the national stadium for football? It's in the south? Where's the national stadium for rugby? It's in the south. Where's the national stadium for tennis? It's in the south.
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