Pre-season

[Richard Parker]

What do you think of Everton's pre-season preparations in general? Other teams seem to go on whirlwind tours of Thailand or South Africa playing high profile sides like AC Milan or Barcelona. We head to the States for a couple of low-key matches against MLS sides. As long as the fitness work is getting done, it doesn't really bother me either way, but what do you lot think? Would we be better off raising our profile a little? It might help us to sign some players...

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

river plate ? low key mls side or one of the biggest clubs in south america ?
Club Atlético River Plate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

mls allstars, representative side from the league and the glamour fixture of the season giving massive publicity, especially as we won the thing.


so what do you propose for next season ? head off to thailand again to be humbled by their youth team ?

 

[Scottoffee]

It was the MLS All-Stars though as well, meaning that every fan of every MLS club would've either been tuned in or at least seen the highlights on ESPN and been fully aware of us being the opposition.

It's all well and good going off to Asia or Africa, but the disposable income of your average American is going to massively outweigh that of those in the other markets...

As someone that's lived in Asia for a long time, it's a battle we lost long ago over here - whilst a large part of the ever growing US market might still be there for the taking...

 

[John Lennon]

wrong in so many ways this thread.