GETTY Manchester United played Real Madrid in front of over 100,000 fans in Michigan last summer

A host of Premier League clubs head to the United States every summer for money-spinning preseason tours. Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea have all gone to the US over recent summers, as have Manchester City and Tottenham. They schedule friendlies with other clubs from around the world, such as Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, but often interrupt the MLS season to play US teams in their home stadiums.

And MLS commissioner Don Garber says a better way to add competition and reduce the random nature of the tours is to create a tournament. "We have been talking to the Premier League about doing some sort of official competition as opposed to just having clubs come over to the country on a random basis playing in a tournament that takes place every summer," Garber said. "I would love to find a way that we could play our cup champion and our league champion against an FA Cup and league champion in a tournament and play it in New York City every year. "If not every year, then every four years. "This concept of super cups involving the MLS, whether it's one with Mexico or one with some of the other leagues, would be smart.

"And many years ago they used to take place before MLS was in existence. It was called the Toyota Cup. That took place around the world. "Overall there is no doubt that there are opportunities for the MLS and Premier League to work more closely together on either a tournament or some other type of activity, but that is about as far as it has gone." Had the cup competition taken place in the summer, Premier League champions Chelsea and FA Cup winners Arsenal would have faced MLS Cup champions LA Galaxy and US Open Cup winners Seattle Sounders. In future years, other major competition winners from across Europe could feature too. "You have calendar issues, but there is no reason why it couldn't (happen)," Garber added.