Manchester United task clear amid new stadium plan and £200m Liverpool FSG masterstroke

There's been a lot of talk over redevelopment at Old Trafford or potential for Manchester United to build a new stadium since Sir Jim Ratcliffe's takeover of the club at the end of last year. The United co-owner and founder of Ineos has spearheaded plans to regenerate Old Trafford.

It was announced, on Monday, that a strategic partnership has been forged between United, Trafford Council and Greater Manchester Combined Authority, with the three parties working together to focus on the regeneration of the wider areas surrounding Old Trafford.

The club has put together an Old Trafford Regeneration Taskforce - putting a world-class football stadium at the heart of that project. The Task Force is to oversee the future of the stadium, plus its generation, as well as that of the surrounding area as United hope to breathe fresh life into the club.

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If United want an example on the success of the redevelopment of a stadium, then they should look no further than arch rivals Liverpool. As reported by the Liverpool Echo and Chief Business of Football Writer Dave Powell, when owners Fenway Sports Group bought Liverpool back in 2010, they had a key decision to make on whether they should stay at Anfield or build a new home.

The call to stay and redevelop their home was taken and the 2016 redevelopment of the club's new Main Stand, which added another 8,500 seats to the total capacity to take it to 54,000, cost around £114million.

Completed earlier this year, meanwhile, the Anfield Road End redevelopment cost some £80million to complete, taking their capacity to just