The Seattle Sounders Herald
Match8 Nov 2028
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.
Market13 Nov 2028
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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
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 ratings13 Nov 2028
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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
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.
Market13 Nov 2028
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.
Market13 Nov 2028
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
- Boardroom Seattle Sounders keep producing them
- Boardroom The Seattle Sounders board put their names to it
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Stuart Hawkins