Manchester United’s physical performance team have been taking a forensic approach to hydration and nutrition for the players, which are analysed closely during the tour.

The physical performance team have developed individual strategies to support each player in their preparations for games throughout the season.

As part of that drive, the fluid loss of players was measured during training, with the use of sweat patches. The results will help the team to identify the best match-day hydration strategy for each individual player.

The eating and drinking patterns of players are being recorded ahead of each pre-season game as the players build up their fitness levels ahead of the new season.

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Victor Lindelof, who will leave this summer if a club meets United’s valuation of him, resumed full training at UCLA on Sunday, after missing the first three games of pre-season.

The Sweden international was one of several United players who missed the first game of pre-season, against Rosenberg in Trondheim, as they worked on fitness after the summer break. Lindelof also sat out the 2-0 friendly win over Rangers in Edinburgh with a small niggle and was not ready for Saturday’s 2-1 defeat to Arsenal in SoFi Stadium, here in Los Angeles.

But the central defender, who made 28 appearances last season, was back in full training with the squad in the latest session.

United’s Chief Operating Officer Collette Roche visited Real Madrid earlier this year to learn about their redevelopment of the Bernabeu and see if their ideas and methods could help influence the redevelopment of Old Trafford or the building of a brand new stadium on adjacent land.

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United have also held a number of meetings with the team behind the development of SoFi Stadium, to learn from their project – specifically the campus element. United have also closely followed the Chicago Bears’ Burnham Park Project and their plans to use a new stadium as a catalyst for the regeneration of the wider area, which is the hope for Old Trafford.

Officials from United have also spent time at Wembley and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, to glean information to help assist the Old Trafford project.