The Colorado Rapids Gazette
Squad8 Mar 2027
20 days out for Cal Jennings after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Colorado Rapids will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market8 Mar 2027
Connor Ronan hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Colorado Rapids can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
$3.7M settles it between the clubs for Ben Bender
Philadelphia Union have accepted the money. What Colorado Rapids do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Colorado Rapids baulk at the price for Idan Toklomati
Charlotte Football Club wanted more than $6.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market8 Mar 2027
Colorado Rapids turn down San Jose Earthquakes for Bryce Jamison
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Cal Jennings stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Cal Jennings and Colorado Rapids agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
4 academy graduates step up at Colorado Rapids
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Georgi Minoungou 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 Colorado Rapids know it.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Colorado Rapids rebuffed over Christopher Cupps
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chicago Fire have kept their man, and Colorado Rapids go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Market Andrew Pepi steps up from the Colorado Rapids academy
- Market Michael Steffen steps up from the Colorado Rapids academy
- Boardroom Colorado Rapids sign off a bigger ground