The FC Dallas Gazette
Match1 Nov 2027
Every point is an argument now for FC Dallas
Position 15 and 24 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
Aaron Morris: 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.” FC Dallas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at FC Dallas
Daniel 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.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Patrickson Delgado
“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.
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
Ran Benyamin wants to come home
“I did not go to Toronto FC to sit and watch. I want to come back to FC Dallas and fight for my place.” 15 appearances in 34 matches say the rest.
Squad1 Nov 2027
FC Dallas take the armband off Ramiro
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
Squad1 Nov 2027
A promotion for Nicholas Simmonds
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Nicholas Simmonds has moved up it.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Ramiro remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at FC Dallas would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
Nolan Norris knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nolan Norris trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Stephen Turnbull in it
- Boardroom The FC Dallas academy earns its keep
- The dugout Tyler Hall keeps his manager's vote