Hunter Olson

Right Midfielder - Houston Dynamo
23 Apr 2028
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Process

Marked for Hunter Olson

83 Edition

The Colorado Rapids Gazette

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Daniel Steres damages knee ligaments — 103 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 103 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.

Market

Alex Harris agrees terms with FC Dallas

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Colorado Rapids people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Kosi Thompson puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Colorado Rapids, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

An offer of $540.0K for Jeremy Rafanello

Colorado Rapids have gone to Philadelphia Union with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Colorado Rapids make their move for Luke Brennan

$420.0K on the table at Atlanta United FC. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Tempers go at Colorado Rapids

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.

Transfer targets

Colorado Rapids bid $230.0K for Dave Romney

The offer went to San Jose Earthquakes this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Business is business: Ben Martino goes

New York Red Bulls paid $500.0K and Colorado Rapids took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Colorado Rapids sell Hunter Olson for $290.0K

Hunter Olson has left for Houston Dynamo in a $290.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

In brief

Back issues
83 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Héctor Herrera out for 114 days

114 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Houston Dynamo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Terms done: Fred Emmings is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and CF Montreal waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Houston Dynamo is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets

$400.0K settles it between the clubs for Jonathan Filipe

Vancouver Whitecaps have accepted the money. What Houston Dynamo do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad

Brooklyn Raines gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Brooklyn Raines has just signed for Houston Dynamo, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Matthew Hoppe out for 31 days

The medical room confirms 31 days on the sidelines for Matthew Hoppe, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Market

Hunter Olson is a Houston Dynamo player

The fee is $290.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Colorado Rapids drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Houston Dynamo

Duncan McGuire and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market

Brooklyn Raines is a Houston Dynamo player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Transfer targets

Houston Dynamo baulk at the price for Michael Creek

Portland Timbers wanted more than $110.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

In brief