Man Utd co-owner Ratcliffe discusses Old Trafford and Carrington plans

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22 Feb 2024 • 6:03 PM MYT
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New Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says the future of Old Trafford is on the immediate agenda.

Ratcliffe has left the option on the table of "refurbishing" the stadium.

He told MUTV: If you look at our role at Manchester United, there are two key issues that we have to address.

One is the football, which is performance on the field really, which is is always going to be our priority with Manchester United.

But the second one, the second big issue really in the club, which a lot of people talk about and are conscious of, is where the stadium sits today.

I mean, it's an impressive stadium and it's the largest Premier League stadium in the country the second-largest stadium in the country to Wembley, I suppose.

But it's not quite of the standard you would expect of Manchester United today and it's fallen behind. Maybe 20 years ago, it was [at the standard], but today, it's fallen behind."

He continued: We do need to look at the way forward for the stadium, the redevelopment of that stadium, and that there are clearly two roads we could take: we could refurbish the existing stadium or we could look at building a new stadium. And that's what we're looking at, at the moment."

On the Carrington training complex, he added: Yes [Carrington is in our thoughts], but I think it's secondary to Old Trafford.

Carrington is fairly impressive, I think. I quite like Carrington as a facility. I mean, I think there are things that we can do to improve it, but I don't think they're of the magnitude that the stadium requires."