Lucas Ortíz

Striker - New York City
11 Jun 2037
Thursday
Process

Marked for Lucas Ortíz

485 Edition

The New York City Post

12 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Lucas Ortíz keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” New York City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Máximo Carrizo is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at New York City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Talles Magno 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 New York City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

Back issues
481 Edition

The New York City Post

15 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

New York City keep winning on the road

16 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Match

Job done: New York City advance past CF Montreal

The tie is over and the right side of it is theirs. 3‑1 on the night, a dressing room that will not come down for a day and a half, and a next round nobody has thought about yet.

Squad

James Sands: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” New York City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Enzo Briones

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

New York City make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now New York City have 5 straight wins of it.

Market

Only the photograph left for Máximo Carrizo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Máximo Carrizo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around New York City the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Malik Odeyinka is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.31 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Tempers go at New York City

Malik Odeyinka 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.

Squad

James Sands 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.

In brief