The Portland Timbers Gazette
Squad14 Sep 2026
Leandro Brey 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 Portland Timbers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Adam Wright joins the Portland Timbers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Adam Wright is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
Portland Timbers promote Andrew Wright from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andrew Wright has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match12 Sep 2026
Portland Timbers come up short against LA Galaxy
LA Galaxy left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Adam Pepi answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Joel Waterman
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Ethan Finlay
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Leandro Brey remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Portland Timbers would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Squad14 Sep 2026
An aura around Leandro Brey
Where he used to play does most of his talking for him at Portland Timbers. The room defers to it, the kids study it, and the only thing that can puncture it is a bad month.
In brief
- The dugout Kristoffer Velde does not fit this one
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Antony
- Squad Antony speaks, and the room listens