Manchester United have unveiled details about the project for a new stadium with Sir Jim Ratcliffe describing it as 'Wembley of the North'.
Manchester United stadium
A number of Manchester United players have already given their seal of approval regarding the club's plans for a new 100,000-seater stadium at Old Trafford.
On Tuesday, a day after a rare Sir Jim Ratcliffe interview, first images of the new stadium were revealed by the club on social media. United believe the new stadium and the wider regeneration project has the potential to deliver an additional £7.3billion per year to the country's economy.
This will include creating up to 92,000 new jobs, more than 17,000 new homes and attracting an extra 1.8m visitors every year. Architects Foster + Partner, who worked alongside United, also shared pictures from the project.
Lord Norman Foster, the legendary Mancunian architect behind the designs, said: "The outward-looking stadium will be the beating heart of a new sustainable district, which is completely walkable, served by public transport, and endowed by nature.
"It is a mixed-use miniature city of the future – driving a new wave of growth and creating a global destination that Mancunians can be proud of."
United shared pictures and a video on Instagram, prompting Leny Yoro, Andre Onana, Chido Obi, Ethan Wheatley, Diogo Dalot, Lisandro Martinez and Patrick Dorgu to all like the post.
The Manchester Evening News previously reported the project will cost an estimated of £2bn. Sir Jim had previously suggested the government should contribute towards the project aimed at creating a 'Wembley of the North'.
The club are hopeful of moving into a new stadium for the 2030-31 season and Lord Foster revealed how they would attempt to reach that deadline. "Normally a stadium would take 10 years to build. We halved that time - five years," he added.
"How do we do that? By pre-fabrication. By using the network of Manchester Ship Canal, bringing it back to a new life, shipping in components - 160 of them, Meccano-like."