The Philadelphia Union Gazette
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Nothing got past Danley Jean-Jacques
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 32 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market8 Mar 2027
Danley Jean-Jacques puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Philadelphia Union, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Nothing got past Japhet Sery Larsen
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 31 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match6 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Philadelphia Union
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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Andre Blake stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andre Blake and Philadelphia Union agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market8 Mar 2027
Dylan Brooks is a Philadelphia Union player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market8 Mar 2027
Jack Pulisic is a Philadelphia Union player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market8 Mar 2027
Justin Sargent comes home
The shirt still fits. Justin Sargent is back at Philadelphia Union, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Indiana Vassilev in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Philadelphia Union this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Indiana Vassilev
- Squad No hiding place for Bruno Damiani
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Bruno Damiani