Singapore - Liverpool football club's legion of fans in Singapore will have to travel to Kuala Lumpur if they want to catch their favorites in action, when the club visit Malaysia for a pre-season tour ahead of the 2011-12 Barclays Premier League campaign.
Sources closed to the club have informed Today that the Reds will be in the Malaysian capital on July 13.
The visit to the Malaysian capital, and pre-season tune-up with possibly the Malaysian national team - the current ASEAN champions - will generate huge interest in the football-mad country, and here in Singapore, especially if new star signings Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll make the trip.
The last time Liverpool, whose main sponsor is Standard Chartered, were in Singapore was in July 2009 and fans here will be disappointed the Reds will not have the Lion City pencilled down as a destination on their Asian tour schedule.
With the National Stadium already torn down for construction work to start on the Sports Hub and its new 55,000-capacity stadium - scheduled to be completed in March 2014 - Singapore currently lacks a decent-sized venue for such marquee friendly matches.
Sources say that one or two Liverpool players may make an appearance in Singapore to meet fans in the Republic, either before or after their KL date. However, those details have not been confirmed and are still under negotiation.
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