Head coach Ruben Amorim has his own office, but CEO Omar Berrada, although we can quickly be made available if necessary.
The conference room has windows – but a heavy curtain if necessary when important questions and the secret are discussed. Coaches, analysts, recruitment staff, scouting and club leadership work in the same field to facilitate the exchange of information.
The “cinema” room where players are shown slides and reruns in the context of pre-match preparation and post-match debriefs have seats with Italian leather, ensuring that they will be comfortable even on days when what they look at is not.
On the ground floor – which now resembles an elite sports environment and not at the hospital near Wythenshawe – the staff are seated in the “hub” by looking at the first team gymnasium. They can measure the data in real time and load it on large screens alongside a bicycle bank to advise players of their physical condition and their performance.
If there is a Big Brother element to this, when it is “intelligent urinals” which offer an instantaneous analysis around hydration.
In the locker room of the first team – which always has spaces allocated for the unwanted quartet of Alejandro Garnacho, Antony, Tyrrell Malacia and Jadon Sancho – each player has a touch screen where individual messages can be sent by coaches or the sports sciences and routines for the day can be described.
Besides this is a processing room containing nine beds, with windows looking at the training grounds of the first team. One could argue that a professional athlete who looks at colleagues does something that they are prevented from being able to be ideal, but the positive points prevail over the negatives according to those who are paid to know such things.
There are MRI, CT and Whole Body – A whole medical scanners could be carried out in Carrington now, although there is no new signature of Benajmin Sesko on Friday.
There are four swimming pools – one to swim, a cold dive, a hot plunge and another with a submarine treadmill, whose depth can be adjusted if necessary. The sauna and the steam in the same area were much more important.
Between the gymnasium and the swimming pool is a “high altitude room” containing bikes and ramp machines in which oxygen levels can be adjusted.
The first team goes right when it works through the players’ entrance. The young people who transition to the elderly go to the left, in their own locker room, preventing them from crossing opposite the Academy building on the other side of the complex for training.
Everything is not complete enough.
The region housing temporary structures that have sheltered the female team – which have returned to the building created for them now, the first male team does not need it – will be transformed into a padel court. Four sleep pods should be installed, while there will also be an area for red light therapy and also dry flotation tanks.
United want to encourage players to stay on the training field longer. The days of arrival at 10 years old and to go at 12 years old have been over.
In his overwhelming criticism of his former club in 2022, Cristiano Ronaldo said that United was “stuck in time” and “nothing had changed”. He has certainly done it now.
Is this building the heritage of Ronaldo, the close friend and the international colleague of the legendary United and Real Madrid, Dalot?
“I’m sure he would love if he could see him,” he said.
“Overall, I think the message was clear, that this club deserved even more. Everything deserves to Sir Jim and his team. They did a fantastic job.”
