Manchester United have announced plans for a new 100,000-seater stadium to replace Old Trafford. Club co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says it would be the “world’s greatest” football ground and would cost around £2 billion. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00A new theatre for dreams to come alive.
00:05It was, I mean, it just started from the point that we needed a stadium which befitted the
00:31stature of Manchester United. And Manchester United, I mean, obviously there's a degree
00:35of bias because I was brought up in Manchester, I've always been a fan of Manchester United,
00:40but I think it is the greatest football club in the world. It's certainly the most well-known
00:43football club in the world, and it needs a stadium of that stature, I think.
01:13I'm not really too bothered about it because it does a lot for the local area.
01:25It will give more space and more people, so it's exciting, so we can't wait.
01:30Who's going to pay for it? The fans, the money will come from somewhere.
01:43I know from previous experiences for many, many years that if you get it right and you
01:52have sport at the focus, at the centre of a community, a lot of other things happen.
01:58You can unlock real potentials around housing, around business, around green space, emissions,
02:05all those sorts of things that make for the regeneration of a community.