Our Red Bulls have escaped the Austrian cold to travel to the Marbella sun. We left Taxham at 08:00 in the morning with the journey taking us from there to Munich and then to Malaga before going to the team hotel where our boys checked in shortly after 17:00.

To help them shake off their travel weariness there was a short training session held in the evening with a few laps and rondos at the Marbella Football Center, our home for the next nine days.

It is the first time I have come to Marbella. There are incredible facilities here. The pitch is amazing - it could be a golf course. There is a good atmosphere in general, and everything is set up for the days of training ahead in which we are going to work very intensively on our principles.

Gerhard Struber

Things will get a fair bit more intensive tomorrow as we train both in the morning and afternoon before our first friendly match of 2024 follows on Saturday (16:00 CET v SV Elversberg).

Two late arrivals are expected in the coming days. Oscar Gloukh and Amankwah Forson had to stay in Salzburg due to illness, but are expected to travel soon.

Gallery: Arrival and first training session in Marbella

¡Bienvenido a Marbella!