The New England Revolution Chronicle
Squad27 Nov 2028
Matt Polster breaks a bone — 136 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 136 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout27 Nov 2028
Khiry Shelton: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” New England Revolution have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Tempers go at New England Revolution
Jack Harrison 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.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Dániel Gazdag 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.
The dugout27 Nov 2028
The manager makes an example of Matt Polster
“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.
The dugout27 Nov 2028
Jack Harrison has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at New England Revolution 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.
In brief
- Market The Alhassan Yusuf story refuses to die
- The dugout Cameron Wright asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Josh Ferreira is fit again