The New York Red Bulls will preseason on the same day as their season starts, which is a neat trick. RBNY is, of course, the club that also currently has a player on loan to nowhere (where have you gone, Anatole Abang?) and is apparently no longer in need of any sporting director at all, since the departure of the SD once personally credited with creating the plan the club is currently following. So having a preseason game in Arizona on the same day as it will play a CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal is maybe not at all a surprise from RBNY, a club that increasingly seems willfully unorthodox.