Man United turn ‘hospital basement' into £50m training facility
The barber's, just off the canteen on the first floor of the first-team building, is among the changes that have been made in a £50million upgrade to encourage the players to spend more time together.
What was here before, when it opened in 2000, was the best in class. But over the years, as Cristiano Ronaldo was keen to remind everyone when he returned, it had aged — and while they enhanced elements over the past 15 years, there was a recognition it had fallen behind its peers.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the United co-owner, who officially opened the new building by cutting a red ribbon at a ceremony on Friday afternoon attended by Ruben Amorim, the first-team players and Sir Alex Ferguson, was less than complimentary about what he discovered when he first walked around the campus in the months before his partial takeover was confirmed in February 2024.
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