The big plans of Manchester United for a super stage of £ 2 billion have raised the eyebrows of industrial experts who doubt the most important aspects of the striking proposal that was revealed this week.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe insisted that he wants to build the best football arena in the world in what the club hopes will be a five -year project.
The house of 100,000 capacity will, said Ratcliffe, become an iconic tourist attraction that looks like the Eiffel Tower while insisting on completion for the 2030-31 season.
But insiders in the industry have questioned the logistics of United's plans, the announcement of which came less than 24 hours after Ratcliffe claimed that the club could not have had any money by the end of the current year if they had not made any rounds of dismissals and cuts.
Sources have suggested that the shiny release of Tuesday was concepts to build a sense of speed for the project while looking for financing. Chief Executive Omar Berrada was one of the managers who went to Cannes for a conference with investors while they want to secure to secure finance.
Those with knowledge of huge infrastructure projects told Mail Sport of an industrial skepticism of the £ 2 billion-it-marking the £ 1.5 billion issued by Real Madrid about renovating instead of redeveloping the Santiago Bernabeu.
The new stadium of Tottenham came to £ 750 million and £ 1.1 billion for the total development, built before the spiral costs of materials of Covid and the war in Ukraine. United requires public financing for the broader regeneration of the area, including improved transport connections.
It is intriguing that sources evoke doubts about the ability of United to continue with the tent design over the bowl of the stadium – the cornerstone of the plans – were given limited space on the footprint of the new stadium at the back of the existing Stretford -end.
Those restrictions can make the design – one mocked by home and rival fans – difficult to fulfill, while the five -year timeline is described as optimistic, largely due to the prefabrication techniques that United intend to use.
Architect Lord Norman Foster claimed that the 10 -year time frame can be halved because of the use of the ship channel in Manchester to transport parts of the build to the site.
Foster said that 160 components of the structure will be sent, in Meccano style, to accelerate construction, but experienced industrial experts are skeptical about the viability of the idea and the wild predictions have been considerably discussed since the unveiling of United.
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