Joe deffo working overtime to keep his composure here. Love that he’s a pure excited fan interviewing a legend

Would love to see Joe suddenly go " So Rio...talking about renovation, it's time to talk about Manscape"

Joe deserved this one, he’s top notch on this channel.

Congratulations to Joe for finally getting a chance to interview someone as tall as him

When the Glazers took over United had planning permission to extend the south stand and increase capacity to 99000. The glazers didn't fork out for that so I can't see them parting with the cash to demolish and rebuild.

Joe deserves that. Delighted for him. He’s a great presenter too

As a Yankees fan, we had the legendary home and built a beautiful new stadium that opened in 2009. As much as I like the new stadium, nothing compares to the old one.

It's demolished already with what the glazers have done to our football club

Nice job staying professionally joe, clear as day that you were full on giddy on the inside. With Rio would rather Old Trafford to get updated. 👏🏾

They demolish Manchester United so why not demolish the ground they play on

A legend and Rio 😅 Happy for you Joseph. Up the Joe Smith!!

Proper big boy smile and standing. Love it. Joe’s a legend.

The Glazers already did this in Tampa Bay (1999). The new stadium will be built in the current parking lot, then they will demolish the old stadium for parking.

Not sure why this is even being talked about. The Glazers wouldn’t approve a 5 quid renovation let alone tearing the stadium down and building a new one. Cost spurs a billion for a smaller stadium (Spursy even when it comes to building their stadium). The Glazers would rather pocket that money as dividends

Big up Joe!

WAY TO GO JOE!! Great stuff as always!

Old Trafford definitely needs much needed upgrades no doubt but they can't leave there. There is the soul as Rio pointed out. Look at what Real are doing with The Bernabeu at the moment. It can be done. Might take a hit in terms of attendance but for the future it's a must.

well done Joe...very professional!

We insist to live in the past. Well done 👏

RESPECT RIO FERDINAND

We should spend a shit ton of money developing and upgrading it.

Legend of all legends 🙌

Talking to a living legend - Rio is...

Should start with fixing that dip on the sidelines. Surprised not more players have been injured

Liverpool have the right idea with what they have done and are doing with Anfield.

We need to work on sir bobby stand now that would look next level love old trafford & man utd

joe handled the interview very well

Leave old trafford alone we love it as its and its the best stadium of the world. Rio u are a legend ❤

Joe swooned at the end .....🤣👌

Only thing we got left is history. Do the Glazers wanna take that away to. Yes fix the training facilities. And upgrade what we got. But leave the foundation alone!!✊🏽

Hey man it’s going to be a huge supermarket. When I come to England I’ll shop there . Groovy site for a mall

it should be atleast 120k capacity but it wont probably be like 89k

Just knock down and rebuild one stand at a time like it's always been done at OT.

these new stadiums really are soulless. i truly hope OTs days aren’t numbered.

Nice 1 joe Rio

This is the House that Sir Matt Built...

OT goes I turn my back on Football! They are trying to suck out all soul we have left

I figure if we do what Spurs did and build it on the original footprint I don't have an issue. Problem is where do you play in the meanwhile?

Of course we can demolish it, no building lasts forever, it's not going to be here in 100 years, so why patch it up now to then have to knock it down later? Pull the plaster off and make sure we build the best stadium in the world, and make sure it has something unique about it that makes it the Manchester United Stadium not just another new build ground

I totally understand and get the history + 'atmosphere' considerations but really any redevelopment decisions have to be made like any other major investment with a proper business case and studies (which in themselves can be very costly) looking at all the options. It may be that the mathematics and logistics answer these questions so that there is, ultimately, only one viable option. Whatever that option is, it will have a very hefty price tag attached to it, and the owners will need convincing that they will benefit from the investment. As for us fans... well we have the choice - continue our support, year in year out, or shop elsewhere. That's the commercial world reality we're in I'm afraid - I wish it were different and that top level football could escape these commercial shackles; sadly that feels like an unrealistic dream.

The problem with United is this constant nostalgia trip their fans and ex-players and pundits seem to be on. They need tp wake up and smell the coffee. Football's moved on since SAF days at the club and indeed I feel his constant appearances at games casts a massive negative shadow over the club and whover becomes the new manager. Other clubs in the EPL have realised that you need professional people to run the club successfully and this is one thing along with player recruitment that United failed to do well. Rather than being angry at the Glazers the fanbase should be angry at the people in charge at the time of the sale and for allowing the club to be sold in the manner it was.

It's the best away end in the world. Because it's easy to get points nowadays 😏

Expand the South Stand. Upgrade the rest of the stadium. That's all we need.

I know rio is a huge old school football fan and he is going to love the history and the tradition of old Trafford since he was a former man u player but he sound like the typical football fan when he says 'new football stadiums are soulless'. If anything atmosphere created by West ham supporters at the London stadium when they faced Sevilla should disprove that and there have been some times at the Emirates where the atmosphere has been really good, like the game against Barcelona in 2011 and the game against wolves recently.

If Sold Trafford was demolished, where would the vermin go ?

yeah, exactly. take a look at arsenal... highbury was magic. truly a great venue for football

Reburbishment, expand and upgrading but not building a new one...Old Trafford is the essence of what we are...with all its memories of victories and legends.

Big problem for me cause current players not good enough to play at a local park so maybe wait to make stadium better 😞

If they destroy the stadium, they will destroy the club, just look at Arsenal..

If it’s knocked down and rebuilt in a very certain and special way (sister stadiums for the youth teams, statues and Munich memorials remaining, Stretford end enhanced, keep the name of course) then I can get on board with the idea. But I would rather they just expand old Trafford and correct the clear problems

How shit are we honestly it's beyond a joke now ten years without a title.

Highbury Whiteheart Lane. Main rd great grounds now replaced with soulless bowls We got to upgrade not demolish 🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪✌️🔰

Rio: Aint no way boi

It would be like erasing the history if we knock it down, other clubs have rebuilt and good reason thier stadiums had no history and were dumps.

We can and we should. It's not fit for purpose.

Many teams regret leaving there stadium Arsenal, west ham. So keep the stadium just upgrade it

Just refurbish it and add a another level

Of course OT isn't going to be demolished. Where the hell would we play while it's rebuilt? City? 🤷😂 Bolton? Nope. This is complete PR codswallop from the club.

Joe was bricking it

Rio would make a good manager

I say keep old trafford & work on it every 4 or 5 years

@SreatfordPadduck Jay I have to disagree with Rio Ferdinand. The facts are the stadium was rebuilt & reopened on the 24th August 1949 so to redevelop the ground it’s about what weight the current structure can hold & what was agreed about the South Stand before the Glazers bought the club could now be uneligible or unrealistic now. Plus it won’t fix major issues at Old Trafford since it was rebuilt after World War 2 . Now as unpopular as it is if we take Old Trafford apart to its foundations & reuse the old stadiums materials to rebuild a smaller 30.000 seater version of Old Trafford in its place. Then beside that they build a brand new 90.000 seater stadium that will be fully up to date in all including full accessibility to all areas for the disabled. The current ground is was never built to adapt with full equality laws if you look at the current equality & disabled laws you would see Old Trafford falls way short. But they do have a good disabled section & ability Street & a good disabled supporters club & a great accessibility department at the club. Fact if a disabilled supporter dose the Stadium & Museum tour all te get in the stadium is the disabilled stand &yjough the back of the South Stannd then you go out to the Munich tunnel into the tunnel to the dressing room & players lounge out to the pitch over to the dugout & out into the Munich tunnel & we pay the same price as the full stadium & museum tour is with or with out the membership 10%. If Rio Ferdinand & Jay want to do the disabled tou rthey would see. So the new stadium would be a more realistic thing to do. Now the history & legacy dosnt be lodt doing rebuild cause the stadium is only bricks & Motor the history & legacy is in the museum & story’s told by them that was there & keeping them alive keeps that there & we are not leaving the site we are just moving up a bit & staying on the site. We needed to fully modernise & open to change cause Old Trafford was never built to last forever. Sir Matt Busby never thought that the stadium would last for ever. I am a disabled fan since 1986 so I know what I’m talking about. Why do you think you never see a disabilled commentator or a disabled reporter at Old Traffords press Conferences unless they are at the AON training complex as well.

Who tf even proposed demolishing Old Trafford? That fucking place has been here long before most of us, and will sure still be there after we're gone. Are no things fucking sacred anymore? Fuckin hell...

How much does it cost to renovate? And it’s aging with outdated materials. The amount of money spend, you might as well build a new stadium ELSEWHERE with that same money, no?

Who'd win an aerial dual between those two....Rio has the athleticism but Joe has all that hair....💁‍♀️

it needs knocking down then we could finally get a real tunnel

There’s nothing wrong with building a brand new stadium on the same site, and designing it to fit the mould of the current one, shape, structure, fixtures and fittings, the pitch to stand ratio etc… let’s be honest it’s changed look over the course of its history span so it can be done tastefully with proper designing and planning… And most importantly, leave the name where it is… Old Trafford, none of this Coca Cola bowl or the Spotify arena 🤣

GLAZER OUT

New Man U theme park and shops incoming

Our stadium needs major renovation or a brand new rebuild the cost of renovation makes no sense, might as well go for a new state of the art stadium .

Glazers parting with the amount of money it would take to demolish OT then build a new stadium? Can't see it myself.

So Man United own a lot of land around Old Trafford. If they could build a new stadium on that land and stay in Old Trafford until construction is complete, that might be ideal. I really don't like the idea of playing in the Etihad for 2 years.

Rio, we have to demolish Old Trafford as it's ancient, outdated and falling apart. We want players to not only come to Manchester United (the biggest club in the world) but play in a beautiful stadium, just like the Tottenham Hotspur stadium. I'm sure City will accommodate us for two years while the new stadium is built. The new stadium could easily be upgraded to a 90,000 oval stadium like Arsenal's with the real estate Old Trafford currently has.

Joe could do with a spray tan

Why not Rio ?? The glazer's already demolished are club so they may as well the ground..

Just flatten it and start again

We can't but owner CAN.... Owner can spend 700 millions on new players in last 6 years. Owner can buy Maguire for 80 mill in moment Koulibaly and Upamecano cost 65 mil together.... Owner can do anything with own property because HE own. Owner didn't destroy MU, average people do, average management,average overpriced and overpayed players.... Vidic was 15 mil, Maguire 80 mil... Good night.

united want a bit of your $$$$$$$$ rio !!!!!!!

Get rid of all that scaffolding.

I went to West ham game in caraboa Cup and it was a shit hole really was what's rio on about

///UNITED NEED TO BRING OLE BACK IN TO FINISH WHAT HE STARTED. THATS THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES SENSE…BRINGING ANOTHER WHOLE NEW MANAGER IN WILL NOT SOLVE THIS CURRENT PROBLEM. OLE NEEDED TO FINISH THIS SEASON AND HAVE HIS ASSESSMENT AND JUDGMENT AFTER NEXT SEASON…THIS WAS A MINIMUM 5 YEAR PROJECT AND UNITED FIRED HIM AFTER YEAR 3 HAVING HAD TWO SUCCESSFUL SEASONS UNDER HIS BELT IN 2ND AND 3RD PLACE, 2 FINALS APPEARANCES WITH CONSISTENT TEAM GROWTH. ALL THAT MONEY AND TIME SPENT WILL DOUBLE WITH THE NEW MANAGER COMING IN. THIS IS A MARATHON, FANS EXPECT INSTANT TROPHIES FORGET THAT OTHER TEAMS ARE GROWING AND GETTING BETTER TOO…THEY FORGET THAT IT TOOK KLOP SEVEN YEARS TO BUILD AND START TO CHALLENGE WITH LIVERPOOL AND STILL CITY IS STILL NEXT LEVEL. ARSENAL, WEST HAM, CHELSEA, LEICESTER ARE ALL CHALLENGERS. MARK MY WORDS WE ARE GOING TO END UP LIKE EVERTON THESE NEXT TWO YEARS WITH THIS CONSTANT MANAGER CHANGES. WATCHHHHH

Sentimental FC. One thing that made us successful in the 90’s was the first to get on the corporate game early and embrace modern football practice and overhaul the stadium. I went to the athletics track at City’s ground yesterday. They have their mint training ground over the road and connected by a tunnel. We are now miles behind on and off the pitch. Knock it down and build something better and bigger than city. We need to the the leader again.

Florentino Perez gave Ronaldo a career. Madrid tormented the whole of Europe with cheating for years and Ronaldo enjoyed all the benefits. I'm not surprised that he's been ghosting since he left Madrid. In the last 4 seasons he has gone out of the UCL to Ajax, Lyon, Porto and now Atletico.

It’s time to demolish the stadium imo.

Richest clubs in the world and cant afford a roof ..... what a greedy joke

germans did in WW2 which is why the gracious Manchester City gave you a home to stop you being demoted from the football league or youd be playing stalybridge celtic & Rhyl every week

I’m so tired!

That’s the whole problem right here. We need to respect what has happened in the past but move on to newer ideas Find a new playing style And if there is a need for a new stadium to keep up to date with modern ones then do it This is exactly why we are in the position we are in on the field and off Love you guys but still come on let’s move on

Still living in the past

Demolish the team first

How about the Glazers just sell the club, then lets worry about the stadium. Whatever they decide to do it will be in there own best interest, why now? or as Arnold has taken over he's decided to put the footballing side / team first and the 'Brand' social media and making money second.....come on, no chance, he's Woodward no.2 and the Glazers will always be money syphoning parasites.

Just knock the place down and build a new ground on the site. Stop whinging about history like a bunch of scousers, because a new stadium doesn't affect it.

Just upgrade. And the can be done in phases. If it's demolished then where in the hell will they play? Sharing the Etihad?? Not going to happen.

Liverpool and City started the demolition for you, 0-5 0-2

Like the team we need to move into the 21st century. The stadium needs demolished and a state of the art stadium needs to be built. Old Trafford is below par. From the glazers perspective enhancing the stadium will improve the income stream. A new 90,000 seater stadium with a mini stadium for the reserves and woman’s team will be an improvement. Any player we are after will look at the crumbling old Trafford and think why sign here. The management structure is tired, the stadium is tired and the results are weak. We need to move forward. If the planning is done properly we won’t lose the soul and atmosphere. We are a bigger club than spurs we should have a better stadium than spurs.

We can. If it mean we can generate more Revenue, I am ok with it. As long as it's not with the Glazers though. Obviously we would take a HUGE loan to do this but I am in favour of "New Trafford"

Modern stadium 🏟 a proper coach and new owners 👌 or forget about it 🤔

Well Said Rio, Expansion, Modern refurbishment & a Levelled new Roof! There's an completed stadium design on WHF!🔰@UtdWesleyy with a comment stating: So apparently we are looking at an expansion of Old Trafford. It’s been talked about for years but put off because of the complications around the south section of the stadium but if we do manage to do it…🔴 2 Tier SBC Capacity: 88,000 Worth a view, please share!

They should bring it down this club is cursed and old trafford is nothing but a joke with an old style football that doesnt work anymore

Swamp