Sam Johnson

Right Midfielder - Seattle Sounders U20
15 Apr 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Sam Johnson

117 Edition

The Seattle Sounders Herald

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Seattle Sounders spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market

Dejan Joveljić wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

A falling-out at Seattle Sounders

Danny Musovski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

No hiding place for Patrickson Delgado

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patrickson Delgado, and the manager let it.

Market

The Pedro de la Vega question follows Seattle Sounders around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Pedro de la Vega’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Ben Lundt 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 Ben Lundt has written the date down.

In brief

Back issues
100 Edition

The Seattle Sounders Herald

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Home is on Robert Voloder's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Seattle Sounders are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Tempers go at Seattle Sounders

Jordan Morris 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.

Match

Seattle Sounders get the job done against Vancouver Whitecaps

A 3‑1 win over Vancouver Whitecaps, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout

Patrick Schulte 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.

Match

The drought breaks for Seattle Sounders

5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Vancouver Whitecaps were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Player ratings

One of those days for Álex Roldán

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Pedro de la Vega

Marked 8.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Danny Musovski was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match

Seattle Sounders at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 13, 13 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

In brief