Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Manchester United set to play Manchester City in China friendly


Manchester United are 80 per cent certain to play Manchester City in a pre-season friendly in China this
summer.
The clubs' chief executives, Ed Woodward and Ferran Soriano, were photographed leaving the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane, along with Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck, Arsenal's Ivan Gazidis and Liverpool chief Ian Ayre.
Despite reports claiming the Premier League's elite clubs met to discuss a European Super League breakaway, M.E.N. Sport understands talks were held over the International Champions Cup (ICC) pre-season tournament.
A Manchester derby in China is yet to be signed off however it is likely United will face Pep Guardiola's City in the Far East.
That raises the tantalising prospect of Jose Mourinho leading out United against his fiercest rival, should the club replace Louis van Gaal ahead of next season.

American real estate developer and Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, who supposedly met with the English clubs' chiefs, was in fact in the United States attending an NFL meeting.
Ross and Relevent Sports organised the ICC in 2013 and United have participated in the tournament in the United States in the last two years under Louis van Gaal.

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