The Seattle Sounders Herald
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ryan Sailor 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 Seattle Sounders this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Hassani Dotson
7.44, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Seattle Sounders had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Market14 Sep 2026
Seattle Sounders buy the years ahead of DeAndre Aaronson
He is 15, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market14 Sep 2026
A long bet from Seattle Sounders on David Robinson
He is 16, and nobody at Seattle Sounders signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad14 Sep 2026
When it matters, Albert Rusnák plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Paul Arriola runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Match Point won or two lost for Seattle Sounders?
- Squad Kim Kee-Hee left out for tactical reasons at Seattle Sounders
- Squad Nouhou has seen what the next man earns