Stuart Hawkins

Central Defender - Philadelphia Union
4 Dec 2028
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The Seattle Sounders Herald

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Seattle Sounders are out

0‑2, and a season that ran to May has ended inside a fortnight. This is what a playoff is: nine months of work settled by a couple of evenings, and nobody who designed it was thinking about the losing dressing room.

Market

Max Anchor has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Seattle Sounders they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Seattle Sounders

Jesus Ferreira 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.

Player ratings

Mateo Silvetti runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words at Seattle Sounders training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Roldan 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.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Agustín Ojeda

8 goals and a season average of 7.28 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Home is on Itzik Shoolmayster's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Seattle Sounders are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Market

The Mateo Silvetti question follows Seattle Sounders around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mateo Silvetti’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

Seattle Sounders put Rudy Camacho up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Rudy Camacho may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

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115 Edition

The Philadelphia Union Gazette

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Philadelphia Union are through

1‑0 settles it, and a club that spent a season earning the right to play these games has won one of them. Somebody else's season ended tonight, which is the part nobody mentions in the celebrations.

Squad

A fracture rules Lautaro Parisi out for 52 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Philadelphia Union will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Exequiel Márquez yet — 8.00

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.00 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Stuart Hawkins keeps the receipts

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

Market

Andrew Rick is on his way

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

Squad

Kai Wagner 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 Philadelphia Union this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Philadelphia Union count the cost of losing Danley Jean-Jacques

20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ben Bender

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Japhet Sery Larsen linked with a move away

The name of Japhet Sery Larsen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Philadelphia Union say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

110 Edition

The Philadelphia Union Gazette

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Lautaro Parisi breaks a bone — 87 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 87 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Quinn Sullivan runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

A bad afternoon for Philadelphia Union against Inter Miami CF

0‑2 to Inter Miami CF, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

No hiding place for Jesús Bueno

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

Squad

Home is on Ignacio Juárez's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Philadelphia Union are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Stuart Hawkins named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Stuart Hawkins is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief