Ian Murphy

Left Back - San Diego Football Club
14 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ian Murphy

13 Edition

The San Diego Football Club Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Elias Achouri 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 San Diego Football Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at San Diego Football Club

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tommy Thompson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Anisse Saidi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Anisse Saidi and San Diego Football Club agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

10 new faces, and San Diego Football Club are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Aníbal Godoy

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. San Diego Football Club told Aníbal Godoy something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout

No hiding place for Alejandro Alvarado

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alejandro Alvarado, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The San Diego Football Club Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Real improvement from Kieran Sargeant at San Diego Football Club

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kieran Sargeant is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

Marcus Ingvartsen sends San Diego Football Club past San Jose Earthquakes

It finished 2‑1, and it was Marcus Ingvartsen’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to San Diego Football Club.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Elias Achouri

Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Chris Lema 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 San Diego Football Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at San Diego Football Club training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Soma 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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Paul Aaronson kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Pedro Soma

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

The Elias Achouri story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Elias Achouri signs something — a contract at San Diego Football Club or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Ian Murphy knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ian Murphy trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief