The Atlanta United FC Courier
Squad5 Jul 2027
A fracture rules Junior Alonso out for 27 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Atlanta United FC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Sergio Santos runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Gio Dempsey out for 30 days
The medical room confirms 30 days on the sidelines for Gio Dempsey, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Marcos Carrera 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 Atlanta United FC know it.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Enea Mihaj 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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Atlanta United FC sign 6 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
In brief
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