Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Orlando City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom29 Nov 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Orlando City
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Ivo Visona 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.
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Orlando City can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antoine Griezmann was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Orlando City can pretend not to have heard.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Orlando City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Nov 2027
David Brekalo falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Eduard Atuesta wants continental football; whether Orlando City can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Orlando City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Brekalo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Robin Jansson 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.
Nobody at Orlando City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.