Marked for Ramiro
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Dallas can pretend not to have heard.
Market21 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Sam Sarver
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sam Sarver will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Dallas the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Ramiro was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Dallas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 3‑1 win over San Jose Earthquakes, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 9.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ramiro gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
One of those days for Petar Musa
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.55, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Dallas can pretend not to have heard.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Petar Musa has come up in conversations FC Dallas were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Herman Johansson commits to FC Dallas for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ramiro was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Shaq Moore
Still no offer on the table, and Shaq Moore’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Petar Musa and FC Dallas agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Petar Musa in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Dallas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ramiro shuts the door
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match1 Aug 2026
LA Galaxy made FC Dallas work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.44 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months and counting on Ramiro
Still no offer on the table, and Ramiro’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.