The Austin FC Gazette
Squad8 Feb 2027
Christian Ramírez damages knee ligaments — 67 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 67 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match8 Feb 2027
Austin FC are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 17 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Austin FC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Owen Wolff was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market8 Feb 2027
The Myrto Uzuni story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Myrto Uzuni signs something — a contract at Austin FC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Mikkel Desler remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Austin FC would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Damian Łaś has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Damian Łaś has written the date down.
In brief
- The dugout Mateja Đorđević knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Jon Gallagher
- Squad Jack Howard finds a mentor