Traditionally, though, this is a time of year when some of the club’s top young talents – and don’t we have a penchant for producing them – come to the fore.
In our first game of Tour 2022, for example, Charlie Savage and Zidane Iqbal held their own against Liverpool’s highly experienced midfield, while the slightly more experienced but still green Amad and Facundo Pellistri combined for the fourth goal having been sent on at half-time by Erik ten Hag.
Those performances will encourage the other youngsters in the squad, including Matej Kovar and Ethan Laird, who sat down with us earlier in the tour for the first episode of our brand-new Emerging Reds series.