Manchester United Soccer Membership are understood to have made approaches to a neighborhood golf membership as a possible website for a brand new coaching floor.
Cautious of area limitations on the Premier League membership’s present coaching base in Carrington, the place they’ve been since 1999 – MUFC officers have targeted on golf golf equipment within the South Manchester space, and have held preliminary talks with one venue, Excessive Legh Park GC in Knutsford, though no settlement has been reached on a possible sale.
Purchased by American Golf in 2021 for £2.7m, Excessive Legh Park options an 18-hole course, 9-hole course and 24-bay floodlit driving vary, together with a golf retail retailer, clubhouse bar and restaurant. The membership was put up on the market in 2023.
Manchester United would require not less than a 100-acre website if it was to relocate all its coaching services for its males’s, ladies’s and youth groups into one venue, though there stays the potential to retain Carrington and former base The Cliff, and unfold the coaching operation throughout numerous websites.
Final month noticed INEOS billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe purchase a 25% stake in Manchester United, taking cost of footballing operations, which might additionally embody overseeing coaching services.
