The Portland Timbers Gazette
Market14 Dec 2026
One of our own: Aaron Dest joins the Portland Timbers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aaron Dest is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Dec 2026
Walker Ferreira steps up from the Portland Timbers academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Walker Ferreira has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Portland Timbers
Diego Chará 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
David Da Costa linked with a move away
The name of David Da Costa keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Portland Timbers say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Gage Guerra has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Portland Timbers will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Eric Miller 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 Eric Miller has written the date down.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Kevin Kelsy
- Squad Mark Wright is not doing himself any favours
- Squad James Pantemis is training like a man with a point to make
- Squad Welcome back, Jimer Fory