Red Hot Chili Peppers row poses threat to Sir Jim Ratcliffe's Man Utd super-stadium plan

Manchester United precocious announced plans for a caller 100,000 capableness stadium, but they person taken a deed owed to ongoing ineligible enactment against Lancashire Cricket Club and Live Nation

Manchester United's plans for a caller stadium whitethorn person suffered a stroke aft it emerged that the section assembly are taking ineligible enactment against Lancashire Cricket Club implicit an incidental astatine a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert.

A subordinate of the nationalist was injured arsenic the set played a gig astatine Lancashire's Old Trafford location backmost successful 2022 and Trafford Council are prosecuting some the nine and promoter Live Nation implicit the incident.

In a statement, they said: "Trafford Council tin corroborate that Lancashire Cricket Club and Live Nation are being prosecuted for wellness and information offences successful respect of an incidental astatine the Red Hot Chili Peppers performance held astatine the Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground connected 22 June 2022."

And according to a study from the Daily Mail, the quality has raised concerns that Live Nation whitethorn determine to halt staging events successful Trafford and that would travel arsenic a large stroke to some United and Lancashire.

The study states that United anticipation that concerts from big-name stars volition 'become a cardinal gross operator and a regular fixture' astatine the caller stadium, with a root quoted arsenic saying that Live Nation are "not the benignant of radical you privation to upset erstwhile you are trying to physique a caller stadium that volition trust connected concerts".

Lancashire besides trust heavy connected staging events to supplement the income they marque from cricket, with the nine making a £5.3million operating nett successful 2023 aft their league and events concern generated £4.1m successful gross and their on-site edifice generated a further £6.5m.

United's plans to physique a caller 100,000 spot stadium are portion of a wider regeneration effort that has been fixed the greenish airy by chancellor Rachel Reeves. "The Chancellor revealed contiguous that she is championing a regeneration task astir Old Trafford successful Manchester that volition spot caller housing, commercialized and nationalist abstraction arsenic a shining illustration of the bold pro-development exemplary that volition thrust maturation crossed the region, with authorities exploring mounting up a mayoral improvement corp assemblage to redevelop the area," a connection from Reeves' bureau read.

United's main enforcement Omar Berrada added: "The transportation of a world-class stadium tin beryllium the catalyst for large regeneration of an country of Greater Manchester which requires caller concern to thrive again.

“We cannot execute that wider purpose connected our own, which is wherefore we invited the announcement by the Chancellor. If we enactment together, determination is simply a once-in-a-lifetime accidental to make a landmark task astir Old Trafford that the full portion tin beryllium arrogant of."

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