The latest episode of BBC Radio Manchester’s The Devils’ Advocate podcast discusses the possibility of Manchester United building a new 100,000-seater stadium.
Our reporter Simon Stone explained earlier this week that the owners hope to make a final decision on whether to spend more than £2bn on a new stadium by the end of 2024.
Presenter Gaz Drinkwater: “This is Manchester United, the biggest club in the country, and we need a stadium that is an absolute behemoth and that looks like what they’re trying to do.
“We sell out [Old Trafford] every game and there’s still so many people on the season ticket waiting list. I think it [a new stadium] is fantastic – we’d sell it out every game. It’d be the jewel of the north – I am ecstatic.
“You don’t just have it for Manchester United – it’s a community asset, you would have a load of shops around it, you’d use it for gigs and you’d use it for other sporting events. It’d be somewhere that everyone in the north in 30 years’ time will have been to.”
However, no decisions have been made yet and how the stadium would be financed is one of the subjects that remains under discussion.
Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds
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