Two days after Celtic’s International Champions Cup schedule was confirmed Mark Warburton has announced that Sevco will enjoy a luxury training trip to North America which may also include a game of soccer.
Celtic’s schedule features matches against Leicester City, Barcelona and Inter Milan but with no decent opponents prepared to entertain the Ibrox club Warbo’s focus will be on ensuring that his players get in some high quality fitness work.
The Sevco trip is expected to be along similar lines to the 2014 beano arranged by Ally McCoist which included playing on a college car park against Ventura County Fusion followed by a match at the state-of-the-art Sacramento Republic Fairground.
In a sad bid to appear relevant to Celtic Warbo today revealed: “Pre-season is booked, we’re going to try and finalise a games programme. We plan to go to North America and details will come out shortly I’m sure.
“We plan to go away and play just one game. The focus will be on getting fit, it’s a training camp.
“We did the same with Brentford, took them away to North America, a different place, but it’s important to go somewhere where the players can take their mind off the fact they’re working three times a day.”
New signing Josh Windass and Matt Crooks won’t be involved in the training camp as they are contracted to Accrington Stanley until June 30.
It’s believed that Global Ambassador Richard Gough has been heavily involved in planning the trip having failed to raise a thin dime from the club’s army of fans based in the USA and Canada.
Celtic are believed to be earning £3m from their International Champions Cup schedule, no details are likely to be revealed over Warbo’s Training Camp.
In a separate move control freak Warbo has scrapped the short list for Sevco Player of the Year to allow fans to vote for any player, last season Darren McGregor won the award.