The DC United Herald
Market6 Mar 2028
Keisuke Kurokawa 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 DC United can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Garrison Tubbs: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” DC United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
DC United rebuffed over Ender Echenique
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Cincinnati have kept their man, and DC United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market6 Mar 2028
CF Montreal join the queue for Hosei Kijima
Add another name to the list: CF Montreal have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Hosei Kijima. The answer from DC United has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
Too dear: DC United walk away from Ralph Priso
$810.0K was the most the club would pay and Vancouver Whitecaps were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market6 Mar 2028
DC United sign Derek Dodson for $360.0K
The paperwork is done: Derek Dodson joins from San Jose Earthquakes in a deal worth $360.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at DC United
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Hosei Kijima 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 DC United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match4 Mar 2028
Griffin Yow the difference as DC United beat Inter Miami CF
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Griffin Yow. 2‑1 against Inter Miami CF, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Miles Wright joins the DC United first team
- Player ratings A masterclass from Louis Munteanu
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Griffin Yow at his very best