Mohammed Sofo

Attacking Midfielder (R) - New York Red Bulls
28 Feb 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mohammed Sofo

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The New York Red Bulls Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Words exchanged at New York Red Bulls

Robert Voloder 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.

Boardroom

New York Red Bulls beat the market to Tomás Romero from New York City

New York City will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Tomás Romero has pre-agreed a move to New York Red Bulls, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Match

New York Red Bulls come up short against New England Revolution

New England Revolution left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Emil Forsberg did the work nobody counts — 7.04

11 combined actions and 7.04. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Squad

Words at New York Red Bulls training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julián Bazán 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

Too much change too quickly at New York Red Bulls

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Owen Steffen: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Market

Mohammed Sofo told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Mohammed Sofo has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at New York Red Bulls.

The dugout

Emil Forsberg has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at New York Red Bulls will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The New York Red Bulls Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Both of them Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting's — 8.70

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.70, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Mohammed Sofo 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 New York Red Bulls, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Emil Forsberg, 34, rolls back the years — 7.82

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.82 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Transfer targets

Too dear: New York Red Bulls walk away from Lawrence Ennali

$1.2M was the most the club would pay and Houston Dynamo were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market

Julián Bazán has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether New York Red Bulls can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A falling-out at New York Red Bulls

Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

New York Red Bulls see off Columbus Crew

Three points for New York Red Bulls, 2‑0 the final word against Columbus Crew in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Cameron Harper beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Jorge Ruvalcaba 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