Pre-season friendly at Eastlands

[Enjoying being a Blue]

Anyone have any info on if we are to have a home friendly like in previous years?

When we make Champions League this would give us a greater platform to invite a top side. Who would you like to see? For me I'd love to see Barca or Real.

 

[Sam_B]

Arent we supposed to be having a pre season tournament?

 

[lancs blue]

Not if we win the Cup, we'll be at Wembley on the weekend we usually have the prestige friendly and there's the Dublin tournament the week before.

 

[gagiesotherhalf]

Thomas Cook Trophy could well be 6 August, according to my ITK source.

That usually counts as our home pre-season friendly with an international club.

PM

(double spacing, PM, said the word 'source' - anything else I've missed to pretend I'm ITK?)

 

[JamesL]

Presumably it will depend on whether we qualify for the Charity Shied.

 

[daveduke67]

People were saying they'd like Lech Poznan - not sure it'd be as good an atmosphere as the last one but you never know. There'd be a lot of Poles happy to see a Polish team playing so it could attract more away fans than say a Spanish team again. There'd be quite a lot of people who'd go to see Poznan in a friendly that wouldn't really consider many other teams.

Who knows?

 

[Impeccable]

If we win the FA Cup won't we be playing the rags or Chelski at Wembley in the Community Shield?

 

[flipmode]

Surely even if we do win the FA Cup Final we would have a home Friendly. Obviously we'll be playing in America/Canada and the Dublin Tournament but I would have thought, irrespective of the Community Shield we would have a home Friendly before the season starts.

We'll all need somewhere to see our new signing Lionel ;)

 

[dennis tuearts hatrick balls]

Thomas Cook Trophy could well be 6 August, according to my ITK source.

That usually counts as our home pre-season friendly with an international club.

PM

(double spacing, PM, said the word 'source' - anything else I've missed to pretend I'm ITK?)

i,ve heard off my source we are playing barca as a condition of when we buy messi iniesta and xavi ...i,ve heard we are having a straight swap with adeybayor santa cruz and jo going in the opposite direction ! my sauce being mr j daniels

 

[Raffles]

I'd vote for Aris again. Their fans were amazing (as well as their chants).

How about getting Alan back as well?

So we could have a mini-international tournament. Us, Poznan, Aris and Salzburg.