United will not tour the US next year and are instead considering locations in the Far East for their pre-season training camp, according to sources close to the UCLA.
Jose Mourinho's side returned to the Land of the Free last summer following a disastrous tour of China a year previously and have visited the US in four of the last five pre-seasons.
The United boss likes the central location of the UCLA campus, the favourable humidity in Los Angeles and the fact his squad can roam freely without being bothered.
So much so that within days of arriving last year, he vowed he would do 'everything with my club to be back' at his favoured pre-season base Club representatives revisited the campus just three months later to plan for the next training camp, which duly took place in July.
But MEN Sport understands United are not returning to the US for a third successive summer and are instead looking further afield to the Far East for their next tour.
Although Mourinho was downbeat with the press throughout his time at the UCLA, saying the pre-season was 'very bad' because of his World Cup stars being absent, that was not the case behind the scenes.
United's young squad bonded over Fortnite tournaments and table tennis competitions while nightly initiations proved very popular after dinner.
Attendances, though, were not quite what they were in the stadiums and there were more than 25,000 empty seats for United's tour opener against Club America in the University of Phoenix Stadium.
United's clash with AC Milan was moved from the 90,000-seater Rose Bowl to the 27,000 StubHub Centre just a few weeks before the game.
lawabiprty
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We need two defenders and a striker
asakila
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Far East without China, Hongkong, India and Taiwan or South Korea is not worthy it's name. Considering locations really while we can smell their catnip?
kizbcdntu
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Anyone who wants to keep politics out of sport would never tour the US. Now if you don’t wear Nike jersey to show you’re not a racist you get shot by the anti racists. Personally I think wearing clothes with pigs in police outfits, and saying the sworn law officers are a continuation of the the 1850’s runaway slave posse are fine humor from Mr Kaepernick. But some just want to enjoy their football or (in America’s case) hand egg.
Joeabcnt
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Man United missing the quality of the players! not the kinds of camps or the locations of it !!! especially the defense players, and one more striker with a high sense to the net inside the 18th
marthias28
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You are planning for tour far away without thinking of first winning trophy. what kind of management is this sef
Sabyasachi23
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They need more money for Morinho
montestiokah
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That is good