Unbelievably it's that time of the year again. Preseason starts next Monday the 1st July. A lot of kids inbound of course for that day but none the less Announced preseason games 27th July Real betis. Pittsburgh 31st July Arsenal. Philadelphia 3rd August. Man utd. South Caroline 11th august. Seville. Anfield Probably some more to be had as well but no word of a preseason camp out in wherever Jurgen fancied so let's see if we use our home facilities or what.
Massive ticket prices. We make more off that one game than uefa do off the cl final. It's absolutely astounding what thr yanks get away with charging.
Yeah... Closest a Liverpool game has been to me in 30 years in the States. Couldn't go was cost prohibitive. Insane price for a glorified friendly. Would have cost me over $1000 to take my three kids (and I couldn't go and not take them). Rather than be a bastard and go without them I just didn't buy tickets. Prices were over double what they've been in the past when went watched the games in Charlotte.
The reality is you.are not going to see very many players due to the internationals so there's no way you can possibly justify paying it to see maybe one or two players.
Yes cheapest seats were over $200 and that is before taxes, fees and random Ticketmaster charges that make no sense. So, yes four tickets would have been over $1000 for cheapest option available. I don't know exactly what it would have come out to because I didn't put it in my cart to find out what taxes, fees, and random Ticketmaster charges would be. I think if you're part of USC you could get tickets cheaper... My middle child is probably attending University there year after next, so might have been able to get cheaper tickets if this event happened two years later.
According to this is anfield Squad for preseason training day 1: Mohamed Salah, Wataru Endo, Curtis Jones, Harvey Elliott, Caoimhin Kelleher, Jarell Quansah, Conor Bradley, Kostas Tsimikas, Bobby Clark Fabio Carvalho Ben Doak, Nat Phillips, Rhys Williams, Jayden Danns, Lewis Koumas, Kaide Gordon, Stefan Bajcetic, Tyler Morton, James McConnell, Sepp van den Berg. Slot needs to move on some of this lot ASAP but it's not awful with Diaz Alisson Nunez Macallister In south america And Trent Gomez Konate Gravenberch are having a paid holiday Without any work to do. While Robertson Szoboszlai will be back real soon Finally Vvd Jota Gakpo May be a while yet but I don't particularly expect it to be too much longer tbh. Salah to win the lactate test obviously with tsmikas voted most likely to barf.
Will our new signings feature that is the question. They need a decent pre season to slot into the team
The younger players are now back for theirn3rd day and seniors arrive Friday. No training camp has been announced outside of the US junker which doesn't lend itself to training. It will be interesting to see what effect not being in a hotel for weeks. I'm not sure you can do 3 sessions in a day without sleep naps and I have to wonder about getting to really know players. .
It'll be interesting to see. I assume the "best" players won't be available until after the USA trip anyway so this training camp will be fringe players, players from **** countries and youths. The players we need to be running for 90 mins at high intensity only really get together in August probably the first and second weeks. Salah will be there day 1. Bradley is there Quansah is there Robertson will be there in 2 weeks Szoboszlai will be there in 2 weeks After that it really is down to "subs" Jones Elliott Etc Alisson Trent Vvd Konate Macallister New 6 Diaz Nunez Gakpo Jota Will probably not even see a USA tour. It will be interesting to see what this new performance coach brings to the table as fitness is key in the prem.
The only good thing is, every big club has the same crazy pre-season that we do these days. We can't blame a crappy preseason schedule on doing badly. That said- I'm not setting hopes too high for next season anyway to balance my expectations. We only get a short period of team-all-together, so does everyone else... hopefully we make it count. Slot has had plenty of time to think of plans "in-theory" so should have a headstart in planning when they hit the ground together.
I'm just interested to see how this new performance coach deals with the demands of the prem. Our lads imo got stale over the past 2 or 3 seasons. I really don't think we had the same go for 90mins. The new bloke might get the level but he might not so it'll be interesting to see what kind of sessions are planned at home. We usually had Jurgen summer bbq camp even if just kids but this year we will have a few players who are first teamers who need work.
Argentina vs. Ecuador – Friday, July 5 Venezuela vs. Canada – Saturday, July 6, Colombia vs. Panama – Saturday, July 6 Uruguay vs. Brazil – July 7. We can therefore expect macca and Diaz to be in semi finals and then a pointless 3rd/4th place play off at worst. Uruguay v Brazil means we will see nunez or alisson back in training on or about thr 2 1st August. Basically we can write off the south American players for the preseason.
