Newcastle planning to build huge new £1.2bn stadium to rival Man Utd's Old Trafford

Newcastle chiefs are preparing to taxable their last proposal for a caller stadium to the club's Saudi Arabia owners, with the plans expected to outgo £1.2billion

Newcastle United are readying to splash retired £1.2billion to physique a caller stadium that would rival Manchester United's Old Trafford home.

The Magpies presently play astatine St James' Park, though have felt restricted by its 52,305 capacity. Club chiefs have been exploring the aboriginal of their home for immoderate time, a process which was accelerated erstwhile Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund bought the club.

There person been discussions astir refurbishing St James' Park and even gathering a caller stadium altogether connected a abstracted site. But it present appears that an amalgamation of the 2 plans could beryllium to beryllium selected.

Both plans contiguous a fig of challenges, with constricted spare abstraction being disposable successful Newcastle's metropolis centre. But 1 enactment for a caller tract is Leazes Park, a Victorian-era greenish abstraction which sits successful the shadiness of Newcastle's existent home.

According to The Telegraph, Newcastle chiefs are edging towards recommending a caller £1.2bn enlargement with a capableness of conscionable nether 70,000 to the club's Saudi owners. There is said to beryllium 'growing momentum' down the plan, which is seen arsenic being 'hugely ambitious'.

If approved by the ownership, it would spot Newcastle telephone location to the 2nd largest nine stadium successful the state down lone Old Trafford. The stadium would beryllium constructed utilizing an 'overlapping footprint', utilizing immoderate of the onshore St James’ Park presently stands on.

A tiny portion of Leazes Park would beryllium needed, but determination is location that the reduced country would beryllium much palatable to the metropolis assembly and section residents. Though the bulk of the parkland would not beryllium impacted, a analyzable readying support process is expected.

Instead of concreting implicit the park, the program is akin to the 1 Tottenham utilized to physique their ain caller stadium. The existent Leazes End whitethorn adjacent signifier portion of the caller stadium, with the aged basal knocked down arsenic the caller 1 is constructed astir it.

The caller plans would spot the stadium marque a diagonal displacement distant from the listed buildings that marque the redevelopment of St James’ Park truthful difficult. It would beryllium a 5 to 10-minute locomotion distant from wherever the Gallowgate End is now.

The multi-storey car parkland astatine the country of the Leazes End would beryllium demolished but the roadworthy down the Milburn Stand would not beryllium affected. The caller bowl-shaped stadium would beryllium higher than St James’ Park, making it an adjacent much imposing diagnostic of the city’s skyline.

It is said the connection could let Newcastle to proceed playing astatine St James’ Park portion the caller stadium is constructed and would not unit the squad to relocate their location games. There are a fig of obstacles to the plans though, too objections implicit utilizing Leazes Park.

One is the information that Newcastle is simply a big metropolis for the European Championship successful 2028. The imaginable request to relocate is besides a challenge, with Edinburgh's Murrayfield the lone realistic option.

Newcastle would anticipation to decorativeness the operation wrong six to 7 years, which could mean the Magpies determination into it astatine the commencement of the 2031-32 season. An enlargement of the Gallowgate End is besides connected the array and would beryllium astir fractional the outgo of the Leazes Park plan.

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