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[Discussion] Thoughts on a New Pre-Season schedule. (self.reddevils)

ChrisV88Cantona が 投稿

The Pre-season is important, it gets players in playing shape, while also generating buzz/money for the club.

But after this Asia farce, I feel like it would be pretty simple to change the format that would benefit the team greatly.

Every year there is an international tournament (which involves most our players), we have a British/European tour. Every year there is no international tournament, you do the international tours, such as America and Asia.

This way we can send out actual teams to the international countries wanting to watch us, and be able to prepare without ridiculous travel when half the team is missing.

Does anyone else have any thoughts on this? How would you change things?

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[–]v7znay 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

The pre season is all about the $$$.

[–]ChrisV88Cantona[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

How much money do you think United makes? [Genuinely curious]

[–]tammodi 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's more about the long term profit than immediate ticket sales.

History has shown that consistently having pre season in certain parts of the world can garner support. And given that asia is slowly beginning to show interest in football that's a lot of people to support United and buy shirts and merch etc.

E.g., Liverpool used to pre season in Scandinavia a lot and other big teams didn't bother. Now Scandanavia is full of Liverpool fans.

It's about securing an untapped market.

[–]KtDcFW4KRbqifPoVZcKI 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Every team does it, frustrating but not the end of the world

[–]dogdiarrheaSmaldini 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Copa America has a really weird schedule, which would make it that frequently 3/4 years United would be in Europe. And as much as preseason is about training and fitness I imagine it's also about international brand recognition, both for United and for English clubs in general. I imagine the club not touring 3 years in a row would make sponsors unhappy, some of the club management unhappy, and potentially higher ups in the FA as I'm sure the popularity of English club tours gives them some leverage in TV rights negotiations outside of Europe.

[–]Luxuslev 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well, this is all well and good. But you have to remember that these decisions that making plans to go to the US and Asia for example are made very very far ahead. Like this Asia tour was planned 8 months ago. And I believe also that United have plans to go to the US next year. so its not as simple to just change things like that.