The club does always seem to have a few of these PR mishaps up their sleeve.
Would be better doing it on the Monday / Tuesday, even if unfortunately that means the odd player (just Robbo?) misses out.
Seems pretty obvious that we've exhausted every possibility and this one is the most sensible, and pretty harsh to call it a PR mishap. Its just daft expecting the whole team to hang around for an extra week, pre-season is going to start early due to the Blood Cup in the winter anyway. Aside from Robbo there's a chunk of Nations League games that weekend too so at a minimum you'd expect Robbo, Virg, Trent, Hendo, Diogo, Kostas and Caoimhin to be called up. Divock probably wanting to get himself settled in Milan, if not also called up. Brazil have got friendlies with Korea and Japan that weekend, so Taki, Fab, Alli and Bobby also likely gone. Colombia the same. There's AFCON qualifiers that weekend so no Sadio, Mo or Naby.
I guess the positive would be that we actually could get Flo-Po, Le Tallec and Mellor on the bus in that instance (and the whole of the 2005 squad along with them) but I'm not sure it'd be particularly relevant if we just had Adrian, Joey, Millie, Curtis and Harvey on the victory parade (entertaining as it may be).