MILLWALL have an idea of how they’ll approach the World Cup break this winter, but it won’t involve a warm-weather training camp.
Clubs like Sheffield United are reportedly considering holding a training camp abroad, but the Lions are instead set to stay in the UK and play a series of friendly matches instead.
It seems highly unlikely that any of the club’s players will be involved in the tournament in Qatar, meaning that manager Gary Rowett should have his entire squad available during the extended break in November and December.
“We’ve got an idea, we’ve got a plan of how we’ll do it,” the Millwall boss told NewsAtDen.
“I’m not a massive fan of warm-weather training camps if I’m being honest. I think sometimes the players see it as a little bit of a holiday, it’s hard to see it as a real training camp where you go away and work incredibly hard on what you need to improve on. That’s been my experience from the two times I did it before at Derby and Birmingham.
“For me, that won’t be something that we’ll do. We’ve looked at fitting some games in, potential friendlies to build ourselves back up because four weeks is too long a period to not play. You’ve almost got to see it as the Covid restart when we had four weeks back and we tried to play a couple of games in order to kick on with the league games.
“It’ll be different, it’ll be unique, but no one’s done it before. I think everyone’s going to try a different route and see what they think is right. We’ll see which ones work and which ones don’t.”
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