Liverpool CEO Billy Hogan offered a major indication concerning the membership’s potential for a preseason summer season tour within the USA.
Plans for subsequent yr’s preseason are already within the works. They embrace what could also be Liverpool‘s first journey to the USA in 5 years. The final time the Reds got here to the USA was in 2019.
Regardless of doing coaching camps in Austria, the Reds spent the final two preseasons in Singapore. Nonetheless, a voyage over the Atlantic appears to be like set to be within the close to future.
When planning for the 2024-25 offseason, Liverpool’s CEO Billy Hogan steered the membership would go to the USA. He informed The Athletic that he’s critically contemplating a North American tour in 2024.
“It’s not set but, however it’s undoubtedly on the desk,” Hogan mentioned.
Liverpool has not achieved summer season tour in USA since 2019
Liverpool has an enormous following of American supporters. When the Reds got here Stateside in 2019, they went to Indiana, Boston and New York. That season, the membership received the Premier League. Regardless that COVID-19 eradicated a summer season tour in the summertime of 2020, Liverpool squeezed in a fast journey to Austria.
In reality, they even managed to repeat it the next yr earlier than heading to Evian, France. Final summer season, Jurgen Klopp and his gamers went on tour to Singapore, Germany, and Austria. The group switched their pre-season dates this time round, going to Germany earlier than Singapore.
Will USA host Premier League video games?
In the meantime, there isn’t any foreseeable finish in sight for American soccer followers keen to observe the Premier League in their very own nation. This previous month, 270,000 individuals who went to see groups like Chelsea, Newcastle, Brighton, Aston Villa, Brentford and Fulham play on this yr’s Premier League Summer season Sequence.
However Premier League chief government Richard Masters not too long ago claimed there’s now no probability of a aggressive top-flight recreation going down in the USA. “I don’t assume we’re actually any nearer a recreation overseas. It’s not a part of present plans,” he informed The Athletic this Wednesday.
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