The Orlando City Herald
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Joran Gerbet keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Orlando City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market6 Mar 2028
Orlando City say no — this time
The offer from New York City for Bryce Duke was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
CF Montreal tell Orlando City: Noah Streit is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Antoine Griezmann, 36, rolls back the years — 8.08
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.08 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market6 Mar 2028
Antoine Griezmann wants more than Orlando City are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad6 Mar 2028
A falling-out at Orlando City
Braian Ojeda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
Too dear: Orlando City walk away from Derek Dodson
$180.0K was the most the club would pay and Austin FC 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Orlando City
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.
The terraces6 Mar 2028
The crowd has taken to Idan Toklomati
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Match Orlando City find a way past Nashville SC
- Market Orlando City promote John Moore from within
- Market One of our own: Tyler Howard joins the Orlando City first team