Josh Brooks

Right Midfielder - Austin FC U18
18 Dec 2027
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Marked for Josh Brooks

53 Edition

The Austin FC Gazette

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad2 Aug 2027

The knee: Josh Brooks out for 14 days

14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Austin FC lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market2 Aug 2027

Joseph Rosales asks to leave Austin FC

“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.

Transfer targets2 Aug 2027

Too dear: Austin FC walk away from Djordje Mihailović

$11.7M was the most the club would pay and Toronto 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.

Transfer targets2 Aug 2027

Patrick Schulte due for a Austin FC medical

Everything agreed with Columbus Crew, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets2 Aug 2027

Charlton Athletic tell Austin FC: Charlie Kelman 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.

Market2 Aug 2027

Austin FC turn down San Jose Earthquakes for Damian Łaś

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Oleksandr Svatok 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 Austin FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match31 Jul 2027

Austin FC come up short against Houston Dynamo

Houston Dynamo left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout2 Aug 2027

The manager makes an example of Oleksandr Svatok

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

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52 Edition

The Austin FC Gazette

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad26 Jul 2027

The knee: Josh Brooks out for 21 days

21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Austin FC lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match26 Jul 2027

Austin FC are top

35 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.

Market26 Jul 2027

Austin FC say no — this time

The offer from St. Louis CITY SC for Myrto Uzuni 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.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

Brian Iloski: 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.” Austin FC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2027

Austin FC bid $4.7M for Patrick Schulte

The offer went to Columbus Crew this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market26 Jul 2027

Business is business: Brandon Vázquez goes

Atlanta United FC paid $5.6M and Austin FC took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2027

FC Dallas tell Austin FC: Anderson Julio 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.

Market26 Jul 2027

Nicolás Dubersarsky wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Words exchanged at Austin FC

Mikkel Desler 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.

In brief

51 Edition

The Austin FC Gazette

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market19 Jul 2027

Brandon Vázquez has said yes to Atlanta United FC

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Austin FC have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Squad19 Jul 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Josh Brooks

29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Austin FC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market19 Jul 2027

Besard Šabović 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 Austin FC can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets19 Jul 2027

$4.4M settles it between the clubs for Jovan Mijatović

New York City have accepted the money. What Austin FC do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets19 Jul 2027

Joran Gerbet’s move to Austin FC collapses on the table

Fee agreed, terms agreed, and a scan that said otherwise. He goes back to Orlando City; Austin FC go back to the market; and both will insist there is no story here.

Transfer targets19 Jul 2027

New York City tell Austin FC: Matt Freese 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.

Transfer targets19 Jul 2027

Julian Eyestone is a medical away from Austin FC

The deal with Brentford is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Words exchanged at Austin FC

Joseph Rosales 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.

Match17 Jul 2027

Still nobody has beaten Austin FC

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

In brief

  • The terraces Austin FC spend $11.1M on the signing the town wanted
  • Market Bénie Traoré joins Austin FC to strengthen the squad
  • Match Another one collected away from home
32 Edition

The Austin FC Gazette

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets8 Mar 2027

Austin FC baulk at the price for Samuel Adeniran

LASK wanted more than $42.5M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

Jon Bell: 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.” Austin FC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match6 Mar 2027

The wait goes on for Austin FC

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Brad Stuver signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Brad Stuver and Austin FC agree another 2 years.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Oleksandr Svatok wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Austin FC can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Joseph Rosales 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 Austin FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom8 Mar 2027

2 academy graduates step up at Austin FC

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

DC United tell Austin FC: Gabe Segal 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.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

The manager makes an example of Oleksandr Svatok

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief