James Aaronson

Attacking Midfielder (R) - New York Red Bulls U20
8 Aug 2027
Sunday
Process

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35 Edition

The New York Red Bulls Gazette

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Terms done: Emil Forsberg is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Seattle Sounders waiting with a shirt. Nobody at New York Red Bulls is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Player ratings

Lawrence Ennali beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Chicago Fire come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and New York Red Bulls did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Business is business: Ethan Horvath goes

Philadelphia Union paid $1.5M and New York Red Bulls took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets

Colorado Rapids tell New York Red Bulls: Reggie Cannon is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

New York Red Bulls come up short against DC United

DC United left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A row about effort at New York Red Bulls

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cameron Harper was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

John McCarthy 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 dugout

Josh Turner: “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.

In brief