Manchester United may be experiencing one of the most chastening seasons in its recent history, but the club is planning for a much brighter future.

LONDON — Manchester United unveiled plans on Tuesday to build the “world’s greatest” soccer stadium. A proposed 100,000-seater arena, costing around 2 billion pounds ($2.6 billion), would replace United's iconic Old Trafford home and surpass Wembley Stadium as the biggest in the United Kingdom.

In a week where the countdown clock was started on Old Trafford as we know it, Manchester United’s historical home reminded us that when the football is good it remains the perfect companion. The atmosphere was a heady concoction of perpetual noise,

Manchester United have unveiled plans for a new £2 billion stadium that will be "the Wembley of the North" – and a sign of the club's ambition to be at the pinnacle of the footballing world, despite its current poor form on the pitch.