I've kept quiet about it but I was reliably informed that the AWs were going to play UAE in the UAE this month. I'm guessing the shark storm that NZF found itself in put paid to that.
If true that's a pretty fudgeen sad state of affairs. Going forward the annual November window, is only the FIFA window when will be easy to have most of the large MLS contingent available.
At the moment UAE only have one game in November this year against Egypt.
https://int.soccerway.com/teams/united-arab-emirat...
Even a basket case country like Venezuela, managed to assemble a team in the UAE back in October for a game.