Gio Johnson

Goalkeeper - Real Salt Lake U18
13 Nov 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Gio Johnson

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The Real Salt Lake Post

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Rafael Cabral stands alone

9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Juan Manuel Sanabria 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 Real Salt Lake can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Jules-Anthony Vilsaint

Real Salt Lake and Toronto FC have settled on $3.1M. 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.

Squad

Kobi Henry breaks a bone — 28 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Portland Timbers end the Real Salt Lake run at 12

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 12 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Transfer targets

No deal for Noah Streit at that price

Real Salt Lake offered $3.3M; CF Montreal said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market

Real Salt Lake say no — this time

The offer from Morelia for Juan José Arias was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Boardroom

Real Salt Lake go back to the board over Brayan Ceballos

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.1M — a club that wants Brayan Ceballos enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Pablo Ruiz 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 Real Salt Lake this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief