Nicholas Simmonds

Striker - FC Dallas U20
8 Dec 2028
Friday
Process

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The FC Dallas Gazette

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at FC Dallas has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

FC Dallas out of the cup

Columbus Crew ended it 1‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Joaquín Valiente

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces

A cup hiding at Columbus Crew leaves FC Dallas explaining themselves

1-4, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Market

Patrickson Delgado is on his way

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

Squad

Herman Johansson 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 FC Dallas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Jack Kortkamp 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.

Squad

Words at FC Dallas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ramiro 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.

Boardroom

Inquest at FC Dallas

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief