Man Utd set up four-day Dublin training camp
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Manchester United are to hold a four-day training camp just outside Dublin at the start of next month.
United are on the third and longest of three extended breaks in their season because of an absence of European football and a third-round exit in the FA Cup.
They had looked at the possibility of playing a friendly in Saudi Arabia but that option had virtually disappeared even before the current hostilities in the region rendered it impractical.
Instead, with no game until Leeds United visit Old Trafford on 13 April, Michael Carrick and his players will spend four days in the Republic of Ireland from 6 April using facilities 30 minutes outside Dublin for what club sources say will be an intense period of training to prepare them for the seven-game run-in.
It is unlikely Carrick will take his younger players with him as United's under-21 side have a Premier League International Cup quarter-final against Real Madrid at Old Trafford on 7 April.
Despite drawing their last match at Bournemouth in controversial circumstances, United need a maximum of four wins and a draw from their remaining seven games to secure a return to the Champions League next season.