Blues reveal plans for new training site
Date published: 20 September 2011
MANCHESTER City have unveiled plans for a giant new training complex the club claims will be the best in the world.
The 80–acre site, next to their stadium in east Manchester, will take years to be completed — with the first step being a planning permission decision in December — and will contain a 7,000–seat mini–stadium, 15 full–size pitches and sleeping accommodation for 72 senior and youth players.
Patrick Vieira, the French former Arsenal, AC Milan and Inter Milan midfielder who is now City's football development executive, described the plans as “unbelievable”.
He said: “For any player to have this facility would be really, really exciting.”
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