Marked for Michael Wright
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Oct 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Inter Miami CF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Oct 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dayne St. Clair, and the manager let it.
Squad22 Oct 2029
34 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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Steady
Squad24 Sep 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Inter Miami CF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Tai Baribo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad24 Sep 2029
66 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.46, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
A performance of 8.33 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
Marked 8.26 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match22 Sep 2029
It needed Mateusz Bogusz to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Chicago Fire, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad24 Sep 2029
4 goals and a season average of 7.26. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
A mark of 4.44 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad27 Aug 2029
Artem Maximenko: 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.” Inter Miami CF have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Defences have started doubling up on Telasco Segovia
14 goals and a season average of 7.62 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad27 Aug 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Inter Miami CF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Aug 2029
98 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.69, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
A performance of 8.42 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
A performance of 8.40 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
Marked 8.38 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.