The FC Dallas Gazette
Transfer targets13 Aug 2029
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 targets13 Aug 2029
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 targets13 Aug 2029
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.
Squad13 Aug 2029
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.
Squad13 Aug 2029
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 dugout13 Aug 2029
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.
Squad13 Aug 2029
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.
Squad13 Aug 2029
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.
Market13 Aug 2029
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
- The dugout JC Ngando asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Brooks Thompson has been promised minutes
- Loan watch Christopher Cupps first choice at DC United