The New York City Post
Squad20 Dec 2027
Tempers go at New York City
Heung-Min Son 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
A row about effort at New York City
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Fernández Mercau was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad20 Dec 2027
New York City count the cost of losing Mark Steffen
31 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
When it matters, Hannes Wolf plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market20 Dec 2027
The Matt Freese question follows New York City around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Matt Freese’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
Jordan Farr 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 New York City, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Squad Nathan Ordaz takes up the language
- The dugout The manager comes out for Nathan Ordaz