Overview

• The squad is spending a week in Girona under a specialised heat tent to measure individual responses to high temperatures.
• Performance staff are using cryotherapy and oxygen chambers in a high-tech recovery centre to enhance player resilience.
• Tuchel will undertake an exploratory trip to US Club World Cup venues to experience stadium conditions firsthand.
• FA operational teams are scouting training bases and hotels for a pre-tournament camp in Miami and final World Cup base pending the December draw.
• Research from Queen’s University Belfast warns that 14 of the 16 host stadiums could exceed dangerous wet-bulb globe temperature thresholds, driving the intensive acclimatisation plan.