James Howard

Central Defender - San Jose Earthquakes U18
4 Dec 2026
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The San Jose Earthquakes Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Samuel Adeniran

San Jose Earthquakes and LASK have settled on $5.6M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market

Werder Bremen come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and San Jose Earthquakes did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

An offer of $5.5M for Matt Freese

San Jose Earthquakes have gone to New York City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 17 in, 0 out at San Jose Earthquakes

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 17 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

An offer of $680.0K for Jacob Murrell

San Jose Earthquakes have gone to DC United with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Boardroom

San Jose Earthquakes go back to the board over Matt Freese

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $5.8M — a club that wants Matt Freese enough to be asked twice.

Boardroom

Noel Buck signs for Toronto FC while still at San Jose Earthquakes

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Noel Buck has agreed terms with Toronto FC for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Preston Judd 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 San Jose Earthquakes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Beau LeRoux signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Beau LeRoux commits to San Jose Earthquakes for another 4 years.

In brief