Man Utd set for post-season Far East trip
Manchester United last visited Malaysia in 2009
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The financial constraints around Manchester United are well known and are expected to lead them on a post-season trip to Malaysia and Hong Kong.
United are about to embark on another round of redundancies but head coach Ruben Amorim has accepted the first-team group bear responsibility for driving up revenues.
One way of doing that is playing overseas matches. United are set to return to the United States next summer as part of the Premier League's pre-season tournament, beginning in late July, after the Club World Cup has concluded.
However, while nothing is signed off yet, it is almost certain United will head to the Far East immediately after their Premier League campaign finishes for two games, against opposition yet to be agreed.
There is a window of a week between the last match against Aston Villa on 25 May and the Champions League final on 31 May, after which players have to be released for international duty.
Tottenham and Newcastle both attracted a lot of criticism last season for heading to Australia for a post-season match at a time when the demands placed on players by the congested calendar is a major debating point.
United have a massive fan base in Malaysia and Malaysia Airlines is the club's official commercial airline partner. However, they last played in the country in 2009, while they last went to Hong Kong in 2013.