Fears new Man Utd stadium faces SEVEN-YEAR wait as Sir Jim Ratcliffe rushes to get started on Old Trafford replacement

MANCHESTER UNITED fans could beryllium waiting SEVEN YEARS for a caller location to regenerate Old Trafford.

Co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe wants to determination the Red Devils into a caller 100,000-seater, £2billion home.

The plans recently received authorities backing and volition spot a translation to the country astir the Theatre of Dreams.

It volition pb to caller housing, commercialized and nationalist spaces, arsenic good arsenic the instauration of thousands of jobs.

Ratcliffe is anxious to get spades successful the crushed connected the mammoth redevelopment arsenic soon arsenic possible.

The 72-year-old wants to get enactment underway by the extremity of 2025, with completion by 2030.

But according to gathering experts, cited by The Mail, "it could beryllium 2032 earlier the stadium could beryllium afloat rebuilt oregon redeveloped."

Seven years is seen arsenic a much close people by architects who are wary of readying support to physique successful the area.

United are yet to determine whether to make Old Trafford oregon commence with an wholly caller build.

It's reported that a last determination connected the stadium's aboriginal volition beryllium made earlier the extremity of the season.

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A redevelopment of the iconic crushed would location conscionable 87,000 fans, a task unit precocious discovered.

The squad - which includes ex-United star Gary Neville, Manchester politician Andy Burnham and Lord Sebastian Coe - conducted a feasibility study into whether a caller stadium should beryllium built.

Ratcliffe has pushed for an ambitious "Wembley of the North" project.

He envisages a completely caller 100,000 arena which would service arsenic the focal constituent of a wholly renovated site.

The full task is estimated to cost astir £2billion and was described by Olympics leader Coe arsenic "one of the biggest regeneration projects ever undertaken successful the UK".

Manchester politician Andy Burnham added: "[This is] the biggest accidental for municipality regeneration this state has seen since London 2012.

"It volition beryllium a cardinal portion of our 10-year program to turbocharge maturation crossed Greater Manchester.

"We look guardant to moving with the Government connected moving freight distant from the tract astir Old Trafford to caller locations to unfastened up capableness for our obstruction web and unlock monolithic regeneration imaginable – delivering benefits crossed the full of the North."

On the field, it's been different dismal play for United.

They presently beryllium 13th successful the Premier League, with lone 8 wins from 24 games.

The Red Devils look acceptable for a immense summertime reset nether Ruben Amorim, with almost each subordinate of the squad disposable for sale.

Ratcliffe and Ineos person chopped costs astir the nine passim the past year, including slashing budgets for non-playing staff.

Even legendary Sir Alex Ferguson was not safe, with the Scot removed from his multi-million-pound role arsenic a nine ambassador successful October.