Manchester United’s USA preseason tour has begun with training in the intense weather condition as they prepare for a tough season next year.
New signings Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo and Diego Leon have all been involved with the group.
During this tour, Manchester United have been busy exploring potential investment opportunities in the US for their new £2bn stadium project.
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According to the Telegraph, on Friday afternoon, club executives attended a sports investment conference in New York, where Ratcliffe hopes to secure private finance for the ambitious proposal.
Lord Coe and United’s chief operating officer, Collette Roche, presented the club’s vision for a new world-class stadium as the focal point of one of the largest regeneration projects in UK history to a range of Wall Street investment banks, pension funds, and other US infrastructure investors at the Rockefeller Plaza.
At the conference hosted by the British Consulate-General in New York, Coe, who led the Old Trafford regeneration taskforce at Ratcliffe’s request and is currently the chair-designate of the newly formed Mayoral Development Corporation for the project, gave a brief speech.
Roche participated in a 40-minute conversation with Everton CEO Angus Kinnear titled “Beyond the Stadium: Placemaking & the Power of Sport in Urban Regeneration” as a guest speaker.
United have drawn inspiration from a number of major US sporting project, including the SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park development in Los Angeles and the Chicago Bears NFL outfit’s Burnham Park project.
Before the team departs for Atlanta for the last stop of their US tour, Old Trafford management are scheduled to meet with Bears counterparts later next week.
To fully realise the potential of the site they plan to rebuild, United and Freightliner are still in talks about buying land next to Old Trafford.
