The Portland Timbers Gazette
Boardroom10 Dec 2029
Continental nights are coming to Portland Timbers
Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.
Match10 Dec 2029
Portland Timbers are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 57 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Felipe Carballo breaks a bone — 36 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market10 Dec 2029
Only the photograph left for Evan Louro
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Evan Louro will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Portland Timbers the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Josh Sargent 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 Portland Timbers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout10 Dec 2029
Juan Mosquera gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Juan Mosquera is on it.
In brief
- Market The Joao Ortiz question follows Portland Timbers around
- The dugout A door opens for Wessel Speel
- The dugout Jimer Fory keeps his manager's vote
- Squad David Wright back in training