Neil Warnock has revealed Cardiff City’s pre-season plans exclusively to talkSPORT.
The Bluebirds won promotion from the Championship by finishing second in 2017/18, so next season they will be playing Premier League football for just the second time in their history.
Although his squad are currently on holiday, Warnock has already worked out his plans for pre-season as he prepares to manage in the top flight for the first time since December 2014, when he was sacked by Crystal Palace.
Speaking to talkSPORT, Warnock revealed: “People said to be ‘are you going to the Far East or America?’… I said ‘no no, we’re going to Cornwall.
“I have a nice week at home, we have two or three local games. In this case we are probably having five or six with the whole Under-23 squad as well.
“We stay at St Mellion, which is a lovely golf resort, and the fans come down in their numbers in caravans and tents for the week. It’s a super week; it’s great for the autograph hunters and we really train well down here.
“We’ve got a nice game against a Spanish team a week before the season starts that we’re going to announce shortly, and we’re going to play a couple of clubs further up north as well.
“It’s a mixture, but it should be enjoyable for our fans.”
Warnock did admit he wanted a friendly against either Celtic, the Scottish champions, or their Old Firm rivals Rangers.
“I spoke to Brendan, but they start quite a bit earlier [than us]. With Celtic we were going to play them the first week we were back in training, but it was a bit too much.
“And Rangers, they don’t know which part of the European [qualifying] rounds [they’ll be in].
“If it went the other way [much earlier], we’d end up playing a reserve team. It wasn’t worth the gamble really; I though let’s just get on with it.
