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Pre season announced


Longy said:
I completely get it & it’s what David Bruce has been brought in to do, run the club commercially. However it’s a shame for those that won’t be able to go like they did for Portugal & Spain.

I suppose this is the price you pay for playing with the big boys. A bit of the access starts to slip away in different forms.
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I heard about this on Saturday, same person told me a game in Europe as well…..potentially in Austria
 
Grimes said:
We’ve done preseason over there before and was never an issue though? There will still be one or two games back over this way as well
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Maybe I never worded it right. But financially & logistically it’ll see way less of the supporters who’ve attended European preseasons be able to go.

It’s not an issue in that it’s not available to those people who’ve travelled over the last few years, but the club is changing. This is as much a commercial trip as it is pre-season for the players. Aimed at a US audience, not UK based Sunderland supporters.

We’ve seen end of season friendlies kick in over the past few years. It’s the way the games going.
 
Secret Visage said:
Makes sense Wrexham with their American connection and us with STID.
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Tweet says ‘three other ENGLISH teams’ so you can rule Wrexham out, thankfully.
Longy said:
I completely get it & it’s what David Bruce has been brought in to do, run the club commercially. However it’s a shame for those that won’t be able to go like they did for Portugal & Spain.

I suppose this is the price you pay for playing with the big boys. A bit of the access starts to slip away in different forms.
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And it’s not like Bruce doesn’t know anything about US football.
 
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The venues will be a mix of MLS and NFL-sized stadiums but the matches will not be at any arenas used during the World Cup this summer.
The series will begin on Saturday, July 25, when Wrexham will play Leeds at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, the home of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On the same day, Liverpool will face Sunderland at GEODIS Park in Nashville.

On Wednesday, July 29, Liverpool will face Wrexham at Yankee Stadium, before Leeds play Sunderland the following night at the Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, New Jersey, the home of the New York Red Bulls.

The series will conclude on Sunday, August 2, when Liverpool plays Leeds at Soldier Field in Chicago and Sunderland plays Wrexham at Subaru Park in Philadelphia, home to MLS side Philadelphia Union.
 
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