MILLWALL are heading to Spain in July for their pre-season training camp – and boss Gary Rowett would like to have new players on board ahead of the trip.
The Lions have gone to Portugal and Scotland and played behind-closed-doors friendlies in previous summers under Rowett.
The squad are back at Calmont Road at the end of this month, though it’s not a case of all rest until then.
“The players are back in on [June 28]. They’ll come back in for testing and see where they’re at,” Rowett told NewsAtDen.
“It gives us a five-and-half-week build-up which is what I’ve always done. We follow a very similar pattern and plan.
“The players follow an off-season plan. As hard as pre-season is at times, they do a lot of the hard yards off-season. They only really truly get 10 days to two weeks off and then they are back to doing different types of activities that gets them to the point where actually we don’t have to a lot of stuff when they get back in, they can get back down to football quite quickly, but obviously there is a physical element to it.
“We head to a training camp in Spain [in early July]. It’s a slightly different look to pre-season this year, but it’s all been organised and pre-planned. We’re looking forward to it.
“It’s a case of trying to get some players in to fill the squad, bolster the squad and improve it.”
Rowett took a holiday in Greece last week, though his phone was never far out of reach as Millwall conduct their summer transfer business.
Gareth Ainsworth said this week that he gets up to 15 phone calls a day from agents offering players.
“To be fair, as I get older I’m getting better. I leave a lot of it to the likes of Alex [Aldridge] and let them get on with it. Whereas one time I’d be ringing every agent trying to find out what’s going on.,” Rowett said.
“So apart from one or two calls and the odd WhatsApp conversation, not too much, it was actually quite relaxed.”
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