Michael Morris

Left Midfielder - Mjondalen
18 Apr 2036
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489 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

10 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market10 Dec 2035

Ludvig Henriksen hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mjondalen can pretend not to have heard.

Squad10 Dec 2035

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Ware Peter Natana 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.

Boardroom10 Dec 2035

Mjondalen cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

Squad10 Dec 2035

A row about effort at Mjondalen

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

Boardroom10 Dec 2035

Mjondalen are $13.6M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

Boardroom10 Dec 2035

Wages swallow 100% of the Mjondalen income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Market10 Dec 2035

A stepping stone, not a home, for Sam Weah

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Mjondalen were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

The dugout10 Dec 2035

Adam Jágrik 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 Mjondalen, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market10 Dec 2035

Still no ink between Mjondalen and Jonathan Edwards

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Mjondalen, another week without a signature from Jonathan Edwards.

In brief

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488 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

3 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom3 Dec 2035

The scrutiny sharpens at Mjondalen

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Mjondalen is running low.

Boardroom3 Dec 2035

Mjondalen 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.

Market3 Dec 2035

Gustav Erik Stachowski hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mjondalen can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout3 Dec 2035

Roberts Zjuzins keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mjondalen may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad3 Dec 2035

Erling Ryerson gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Erling Ryerson has just signed for Mjondalen, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad3 Dec 2035

Adam Jágrik 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 Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom3 Dec 2035

$521.5K of the owner's money at Mjondalen

The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.

Squad3 Dec 2035

Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ware Peter Natana is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market3 Dec 2035

Michael Morris already looking beyond Mjondalen

He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.

In brief