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Players are entitled to time off.
The physio/medical team give them a personalised fitness regime to follow in the off-season. The players don't need to be at Rush Green to follow that.
Like most people do, I expect she's posting pics of the family having fun, rather than of hubby at work.
FF Football new season up and running from w/b 10 July.
Let the tinkering begin ;wahoo
Having enjoyed his holidays, Byram returned to Rush Green last week, where he is one of a number of first-team players working on their fitness and rehabilitation.
“We’ve got a programme to do over our holidays and I only live 15 minutes from the training ground, so it’s easy for me to just pop in and use the facilities here to keep me in shape,” the right-back explained.
Which reinforces my belief that when we hear of players 'back early working to get fit ahead of pre-season' often it is just them doing their normal off-season routines but using the club facilities rather than any other gym or whatever. Doesn't mean the 'not back' aren't also sticking to their workout programme - just not at the club, or posting pictures on Instagram about it.
(I see that Byram Instagrammed a pic of him our running while on holiday in the States.)
AC (what is he wearing?) Sakho, Byram, Arfer, Fletcher, Nobes, Zabaleta, Obiang, Ginge plus the gaffer. Makes me happy ;wahoo
Not claiming to be ITK but I know AC is not expected to undergo the same pre-season as the rest of the guys. He is expected to be behind them.
New fixture added in Austria, against Fulham on 20 July.
http://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2017/july/07/friendlies-confirmed
For reference, I have updated the 1st post in this thread to show the confirmed fixtures - I thought it was easier to have it in 1 place.
Interesting. Clearly the 'philosophy' of pre-season varies quite a lot. Although I thought the 'run, run and run some more' was viewed as quite old-fashioned these days.
I noticed from another article on the club site that pre-season seems to involve more ball work from the very beginning, which I understand wasn't always the case.
I note, though, that in the Recce Oxford interview, he says there isn't that much difference, except that even more emphasis is placed on the running! Maybe implying that running is still a big part of it in England?
;hmm
One of my best mates is a fan and we'd like to watch it together.
Premier sports (Eng) and Sport TV2 Portugal. I've started a separate streams thread here: http://www.whu606.com/discussion/10225
Pretty sure almost all teams have had their first friendly by now, excluding maybe one or 2
Happy to see some of the younger players use this opportunity hopefully to impress especially Fletcher and Martinez who have no competition atm for the striker position at least for a couple weeks
Also hoping that Burke, Rice, Cullen, Browne, Hollan and Makasi can make an impression as they are probably closest to the first team right now