United plan trip to the States

MANCHESTER United are planning to head to the United States next summer following this year's shambolic pre-season trip to China.

It is understood plans are being finalised for Jose Mourinho's men to head across the Atlantic for pre-season, as they did in both 2014 and 2015.

United officials went on a reconnaissance trip last week as plans begin to get firmed up, heading to Los Angeles - a favourite pre-season destination of Mourinho - and checking out UCLA.

A trip to the USA is likely to be far more straightforward than last summer's tour in China, where bureaucracy, disorganisation and bad luck meant United's International Champions Cup involvement was more of a hindrance than help.