It's been exactly one month since Manchester United closed the curtain on last season with an FA Cup final defeat to Manchester City, and yet preparations are about to get underway for 2023/2024.
Summers seem to be getting shorter for Premier League teams and a truncated campaign, caused in part by the decision to shoehorn a World Cup into the schedule, has constricted the off-season even further. Two June internationals have done little to help matters either.
United will welcome its first group of players back for pre-season this week, with the traditional round of physical testing to look forward to for those at Carrington. Next Wednesday, the available cohort will head to Oslo for the first of seven pre-season friendlies - barring the meeting with Wrexham in which a second-string side will play - against Leeds United.
