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159 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

13 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Too dear: FC Dallas walk away from Paul Arriola

$200.0K was the most the club would pay and Los Angeles Football Club were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Sergio Villalpando deal

FC Dallas ran out of time with St. Louis CITY SC. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Felipé Hernández

FC Dallas asked and Toronto FC said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Leo Duru 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.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Dallas

Mohammed Sofo 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.

The dugout

Leo Duru 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.

Squad

David Moore out for 22 days

The medical room confirms 22 days on the sidelines for David Moore, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

JC Ngando wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and FC Dallas know it.

Market

Talks stall between FC Dallas and Leo Duru

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

Back issues
154 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Diego García asks to leave FC Dallas

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

The wait goes on for FC Dallas

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Transfer targets

FC Dallas bid $980.0K for Santiago Pita

The offer went to Real Salt Lake this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Toronto FC tell FC Dallas: Deandre Kerr is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Ramiro stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ramiro and FC Dallas agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words at FC Dallas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ramiro 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.

Match

3 matches without a goal for FC Dallas

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ryan Porteous

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for FC Dallas against Sporting Kansas City

0‑2 to Sporting Kansas City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief