The membership need one thing consistent with their roots in an industrial metropolis and it’s anticipated the statues across the present stadium could be relocated to any new floor.
Ratcliffe needs native and nationwide authorities to play some half in funding the general challenge though, realistically, that’s more likely to contain transport hyperlinks.
Precisely how the stadium could be financed is among the topics nonetheless below dialogue.
At present change charges, United’s current debt is £647.5m, excluding excellent switch price funds, made up of $650m (£504.5m) historic debt as a legacy of the Glazer household takeover in 2005 and £143m from a rolling credit score facility.
The Glazers are being saved updated with the discussions.
Sources mentioned United’s chief working officer Collette Roche has been assessing stadium redevelopments worldwide, together with the Optus Stadium in Perth, which opened in 2018, and Actual Madrid’s renovated Bernabeu Stadium.
There has additionally been dialogue with officers on the 70,000-capacity SoFi Stadium, the place United have been beaten by Arsenal in a US tour sport on Saturday.
Inglewood Mayor James T Butts confirmed Gunners’ proprietor Stan Kroenke paid all $5bn (£3.88bn) to construct SoFi Stadium, house to the LA Rams and LA Chargers NFL sides, describing it because the “pre-eminent stadium on the planet”.
He advised BBC Sport: “Ordinarily, when a workforce goes into a brand new stadium, town pays $300-$500m (£232.86m-£388.1m) for development prices or an equal quantity of land.
“We did neither of these issues. What we had was the situation. We made a deal that suited each of us but it surely didn’t contain funding or shopping for land. Stan Kroenke paid $5bn (£3.88bn).”