The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Colorado Rapids this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ted Ku-DiPietro 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.
Ali Fadal 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.
Paxten Aaronson 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.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Darren Yapi and Colorado Rapids agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Paxten Aaronson 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.
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.
Nobody at Colorado Rapids 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.
The 88th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Darren Yapi decided nobody was going anywhere. New York City had no time left to answer.
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Darren Yapi did not need any: 7.92, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Add another name to the list: Racing Genk have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Rafael Navarro. The answer from Colorado Rapids has not changed — yet.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Colorado Rapids this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ted Ku-DiPietro 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.
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.