{"id":231866,"date":"2025-10-22T07:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231866\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:08:07","slug":"cost-of-new-man-utd-stadium-project-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231866\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of New Man Utd Stadium Project Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_q0grpiczm\">Manchester United\u2019s Chief Operating Officer, Collette Roche, says the club will pay \u00a32 billion ($2.65 billion) to build a new Old Trafford, but the UK government will be asked to support funding for local infrastructure and area regeneration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_xjn4zjp9g\">Earlier this year, the Red Devils announced<a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/team\/manchester-united\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> plans to build a new 100,000-seater stadium that co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe dubbed \u201cthe Wembley of the North\u201d. The current Old Trafford, one of the most iconic football grounds in world football, has been scrutinised by fans, former players and pundits for a number of years, owing to leaks in the roof and other outdated structural features.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ojtbhog05\">Ratcliffe targeted a tentative completion date by 2030, with <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manutd.com\/en\/news\/detail\/man-utd-coo-collette-roche-discusses-new-stadium-plans-on-we-built-this-city-podcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roche and the club<\/a> confirming the price it will cost to build a \u201cNew Trafford\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_fzijvw6mj\">\u201cWe understand the stadium is our responsibility. We want to provide a great stadium for our fans. We will pay the \u00a32 billion I think it is at the last estimate to be able to do that,\u201d Roche said on the <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/podfollow.com\/webuiltthiscity\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">We Built This City<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FREE NEWSLETTER. New SI FC Newsletter Global Embed. Sign Up to Get Informed With SI FC. dark<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"base_1emrqjj-o_O-initial_fzbddc-o_O-style_1a1csmw\" alt=\"Old Trafford Regeneration\" title=\"Old Trafford Regeneration\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A proposed model of the Old Trafford Regeneration project. \/ Oli Scarff\/AFP\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_2bgitvktf\">The COO later made an official ask to the country\u2019s government after stating Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, and the Trafford Council are \u201creally keen to work with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_9fpdw0iot\">\u201cThere&#8217;s no point building the best and biggest stadium in the UK and it being on an island where you can&#8217;t get to it because the transport links aren&#8217;t there, or people can&#8217;t come on a non-match day, or local businesses can&#8217;t be part of.\u00a0So our ask of the government is that they support, not the stadium build, but support the infrastructure and the regeneration of the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_5yng98l4o\">Plans to develop the stadium <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/man-utd-100-000-seater-stadium-major-roadblock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reportedly hit a roadblock in August<\/a> over a price dispute between the club and land owner Freightliner. The company were said to value the land around \u00a3400 million ($531 million) at the time, while the club estimated \u00a340-50 million ($53-66 million) for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_c6b7xxk9h\">\u201cAnd when we&#8217;ve looked at it really closely, it actually ticks so many boxes for the government around their growth strategy. So it\u2019s very easy for us to use this as a catalyst to help deliver the government plans,\u201d Roche concluded.<\/p>\n<p>READ THE LATEST MAN UTD NEWS, TRANSFER RUMORS AND MORE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United\u2019s Chief Operating Officer, Collette Roche, says the club will pay \u00a32 billion ($2.65 billion) to build&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-231866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}