Man United chiefs to make new Everton stadium 'visit' as Sir Jim Ratcliffe vision becomes clear

Manchester United are sending some of the club's top officials to overlook the construction of Everton's new £800million stadium this week as Sir Jim Ratcliffe continues to outline his plans to renovate Old Trafford in the near future.

The club's new minority owner has long talked about the state of the facilities since his arrival in February earlier this year and is intent on rebuilding Old Trafford on the current site with hopes to publish formal plans by Autumn. Having previously described the stadium as 'run down', the ground famously failed to cope with a huge rainstorm during the 1-0 defeat to Arsenal in May, which saw the Sir Bobby Charlton Stand roof leak.

Water gushed down the stands next to supporters, with hospitality balconies and even the tunnel on the pitch being flooded with rain, something Ratcliffe called ‘The third-highest waterfall in Britain’ in an interview with The Times last month. Despite that, he's already invested £238m into upgrading the club's current facilities and architectural firms have already started proposing their own visions of what a new Old Trafford may look like in the future.

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Explaining the vision for his plan, Ratcliffe told the Geraint Thomas Cycling Club podcast: "You have got this opportunity if you choose to, to build a completely new ground because we have got enough space to build a completely new ground. If you built a completely new ground it would absolutely be state of the art, world-class, 90,000 or maybe even 100,000 (capacity).

"That then provides a platform for