Will Cleary

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95 Edition

The Charlotte Football Club Sentinel

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market22 May 2028

Will Cleary 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 The request is on a desk at Charlotte Football Club, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match20 May 2028

4 matches without a win for Charlotte Football Club

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Charlotte Football Club are no longer polite ones.

Match20 May 2028

4 matches without a goal for Charlotte Football Club

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad22 May 2028

David Schnegg 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.

Squad22 May 2028

Will Cleary makes it 100

100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The dugout22 May 2028

Archie Goodwin gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout22 May 2028

Kerwin Vargas knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Charlotte Football Club, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout22 May 2028

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Mark Steffen chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout22 May 2028

Charlotte Football Club pick somebody else ahead of John Nelson

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

Back issues
63 Edition

The Charlotte Football Club Sentinel

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout11 Oct 2027

Jordan Adebayo-Smith says Charlotte Football Club went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Charlotte Football Club lose Andrew Privett

16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Words at Charlotte Football Club training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Schnegg 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.

Boardroom11 Oct 2027

Still nobody in the Charlotte Football Club dugout

10 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Devin Padelford 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 Charlotte Football Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

Yutaro Tsukada gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market11 Oct 2027

Charlotte Football Club and Kobe Franklin are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market11 Oct 2027

The Kerwin Vargas question follows Charlotte Football Club around

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

Squad11 Oct 2027

Archie Goodwin has seen what the next man earns

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Charlotte Football Club that is a harder question to answer.

In brief

39 Edition

The Charlotte Football Club Sentinel

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match24 Apr 2027

The wait goes on for Charlotte Football Club

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market26 Apr 2027

Kerwin Vargas 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 Charlotte Football Club, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom26 Apr 2027

Charlotte Football Club close the window on a squad of their own making

8 in and 4 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad26 Apr 2027

David Schnegg 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.

Transfer targets26 Apr 2027

Charlotte Football Club rebuffed over Jeff Gal

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chicago Fire have kept their man, and Charlotte Football Club go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad26 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Charlotte Football Club

Kobe Franklin 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.

Squad26 Apr 2027

Will Cleary signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Will Cleary and Charlotte Football Club agree another 4 years.

Player ratings26 Apr 2027

Nobody on the pitch touched Kerwin Vargas

7.70, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Charlotte Football Club had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Match24 Apr 2027

Charlotte Football Club share the spoils with Chicago Fire

A 1‑1 draw with Chicago Fire leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

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