The Portland Timbers Gazette
Squad7 Feb 2028
33 days out for Ronald Hernández after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Portland Timbers will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match7 Feb 2028
Every point is an argument now for Portland Timbers
Position 13 and 26 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at Portland Timbers
Ronald Hernández 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Aaron Adams out for 28 days
The medical room confirms 28 days on the sidelines for Aaron Adams, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market7 Feb 2028
The Alexander Aravena talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Portland Timbers know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Alexander Aravena 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 Alexander Aravena has written the date down.
In brief
- The dugout Juan Mosquera keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Extra work for Finn Surman at Portland Timbers