The Portland Timbers Gazette
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near Antony
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market8 Mar 2027
Finn Surman asks to leave Portland Timbers
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Hunter Sulte: 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.” Portland Timbers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Joao Ortiz wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Portland Timbers can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Portland Timbers
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Portland Timbers rebuffed over Henry Wingo
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Toronto FC have kept their man, and Portland Timbers go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match6 Mar 2027
At last: Portland Timbers win one
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Los Angeles Football Club. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Market8 Mar 2027
Christian Zardes steps up from the Portland Timbers academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Christian Zardes 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Aaron Aaronson joins the Portland Timbers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aaron Aaronson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Portland Timbers promote George Robinson from within
- Match Portland Timbers see off Los Angeles Football Club
- Squad A passport keeps Kamal Miller off the list