Daniel Johnson

Left Midfielder - Free Agent
28 May 2035
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The Minnesota United FC Chronicle

2 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Minnesota United FC spell it out for Interim Coach

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market

Minnesota United FC turn down Atlanta United FC for Seymour Reid

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at Minnesota United FC

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad

Anthony Markanich has been here 11 seasons

332 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Market

Siyabonga Dolly 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 The request is on a desk at Minnesota United FC, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Joaquín Pereyra stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Joaquín Pereyra and Minnesota United FC agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Nicolás Romero 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 Minnesota United FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Dominik Fitz 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.

Market

No place for Owen Bradley in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Owen Bradley has his answer from Minnesota United FC; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief