The DC United Herald
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at DC United
Louis Munteanu and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market11 Jan 2027
Westerlo watching Gabe Segal
The interest is real enough to have reached print. DC United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad11 Jan 2027
João Peglow signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” João Peglow commits to DC United for another 3 years.
Market11 Jan 2027
Mark Johnson steps up from the DC United academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mark Johnson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at DC United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tai Baribo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Tai Baribo knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Tai Baribo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout Alex Bono has become a man the manager trusts
- Market The Tai Baribo talk will not go away
- Squad Jackson Hopkins wants to know why he earns less
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Louis Munteanu