Manchester United Scrap Middle East Training Camp Amid Security Concerns
Manchester United have scrapped plans for a schooling camp in the Gulf region during next month’s wintry weather break because of protection concerns.
United do no longer play for sixteen days among Premier League ties towards Wolves on 1 February and at Chelsea on 17 February.
Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer plans to give his squad some days off before going away for a schooling camp. While the destination had now not been decided, Qatar and Dubai might have been close to the pinnacle of United’s list.
In January final year, Solskjaer took his squad to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and sent some of his players there again in November at some point of an global break.
United have also formerly used the Aspire Academy in Qatar’s capital Doha for a winter education camp.
There has been a rise in tensions inside the region after senior Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US air strike in Baghdad and a Ukrainian International Airlines plane became accidentally shot down in Tehran, killing all 176 passengers.
Solskjaer has decided to hold his squad in Europe, most in all likelihood Spain or Portugal, to prepare for the rest in their campaign, which incorporates a Europa League final-32 assembly with Belgian side Club Bruges.
When requested if United’s plans had changed, Solskjaer said: “Yes, there are matters that fear me greater than football.
“We were searching at the Middle East however that is simply now not going to happen. We will stay in Europe.”
The brand new Foreign and Commonwealth Office tour recommendation for Qatar is that vacationers should “continue to be vigilant” amid a “heightened danger of terrorist assaults globally in opposition to UK hobbies and British nationals”.