Plenty of them played other PL team during pre season mate. You have to build up your fitness in a gradual managed and controlled way. We just just chose crap teams to try and make us look better and even that back fired because we were still crap and ended up completely unfit and unprepared for the start of PL season.
I think aborad and in commerical touments in places like Asia or the States, no? It was also earlier in Preseason. Id be surprised if they play each other in latter preseason - but happy to be corrected?
Dont dispute that, would be nice, to do a tour of i dont know Spain or Germany, play all the local teams - i think resources and cashflow where at play. I still think we're a few weeks of being trually "match" or "PL" fit myself - as i explained in my earlier posts on sports science and S&C.