James Wright

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
21 Nov 2032
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291 Edition

The Colorado Rapids Gazette

23 Feb 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom23 Feb 2032

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Colorado Rapids

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad23 Feb 2032

Words exchanged at Colorado Rapids

Zack Steffen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad23 Feb 2032

Máximo Carrizo 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.

The dugout23 Feb 2032

No hiding place for Brenden Aaronson

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

Squad23 Feb 2032

Brenden Aaronson has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Colorado Rapids will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Market23 Feb 2032

Matheus Nascimento linked with a move away

The name of Matheus Nascimento keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Colorado Rapids say nothing, which says plenty.

Market23 Feb 2032

James Wright leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. James Wright leaves Colorado Rapids the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

Market23 Feb 2032

Michael Robinson leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Michael Robinson leaves Colorado Rapids the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

Boardroom23 Feb 2032

Colorado Rapids keep producing them

58 graduates from an academy now rated 9 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

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The Colorado Rapids Gazette

3 Feb 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad3 Feb 2031

A fracture rules J.D. Gunn out for 24 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Colorado Rapids will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom3 Feb 2031

Joe Rice has agreed to leave Colorado Rapids for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad3 Feb 2031

Zack Steffen 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 Colorado Rapids this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market3 Feb 2031

Only the photograph left for Joe Rice

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Joe Rice will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Colorado Rapids the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad3 Feb 2031

James Wright arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. James Wright has, at Colorado Rapids, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad3 Feb 2031

Rob Holding signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rob Holding and Colorado Rapids agree another 2 years.

Market3 Feb 2031

Colorado Rapids sign James Wright, one for the future

James Wright is 19, and Colorado Rapids have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market3 Feb 2031

A long bet from Colorado Rapids on Luca Steffen

He is 19, and nobody at Colorado Rapids signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

The dugout3 Feb 2031

The manager makes an example of Kayne Rizvanovich

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief