Man Utd midfielder Mason Mount praised the Carrington refurbishment, adding that it has helped improve the spirit in the dressing room.
Mount spoke about the Carrington investment
Mount spoke about the Carrington investment(Image: MUTV)
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Mason Mount has described the Carrington renovation as "amazing". Manchester United spent £50million to refurbish the first-team building and Mount claimed the players don't want to leave after training.
United have modernised the main building at Carrington and all areas were refurbished to deliver a 'world-class football facility with a positive culture to support future success'. When the refurbishment plans were announced, Sir Jim Ratcliffe said: “We want to create a world-class environment for our teams to win. When we conducted a thorough review of the Carrington facilities and met with our men’s first-team players, it was clear the standards had fallen below some of our peers."
The main building renovation was unveiled before the start of the season, and Mount is the latest member of the dressing room to heap praise on the modernised Carrington facilities. "The training ground is amazing now," he told club media.
"It's got to the point where you don't want to leave, you want to stay here, do a bit of recovery and everything like that. It's really important for us as a club, but you can feel the morale within the building, it's improving, for sure.
"Spending a lot of time together at the training ground matters, for sure, because the more time you spend together, the more you learn about each other and bond as a group. I think you can see that on the pitch when times have been tough, we've reacted positively. The Forest game, we went 2-1 down after half-time, and we got back to 2-2 to draw the game."
Inside Manchester United's new Carrington training complex
The swimming pool inside Manchester United's new Carrington training complex
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Discussing what Ruben Amorim is like during training, Mount said: "He's great, really good. I think you can see it on the pitch, we always do everything we can for him and work as hard as we can for him. Show passion, fight and desire to win the game.
"He's exactly like that in training as well, you really feel that passion for the game and as a player, that's all you want to play for. If you look at the squad now, there's lots of competition for places.
"That's exactly what we need because the standard is always pushing higher and higher. And we need to keep setting those standards high because we want to achieve a lot. I think it's massively important for us as a group to be competitive, but as soon as we go on the pitch to face the opposition, it's a given."
United moved from The Cliff to Carrington in 2000 and the training ground was a world-class facility when it opened, but it had fallen behind other facilities in recent years.
Cristiano Ronaldo publicly criticised Carrington in his interview with Piers Morgan in 2022. “Nothing changes. Not only the jacuzzi, the pool, even the gym. Even some points of technology, the kitchen, the chefs - who I appreciate, lovely people," he said. "They stop in time, which surprised me a lot."
Architectural firm Foster + Partners were responsible for designing the redevelopment of United's first-team building at Carrington, which the club described as "a leading-edge, high-performance training environment designed to inspire collaboration, innovation and excellence".