The Minnesota United FC Chronicle
Match27 Mar 2032
Minnesota United FC strike at the death to beat LA Galaxy
There were 85 minutes on the clock and LA Galaxy had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Minnesota United FC did not stop to explain themselves.
Squad29 Mar 2032
Drake Callender 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 Minnesota United FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Mar 2032
Words at Minnesota United FC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mamadou Dieng is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match27 Mar 2032
Austin Ayoubi the difference as Minnesota United FC beat LA Galaxy
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Austin Ayoubi. 1‑0 against LA Galaxy, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings29 Mar 2032
The afternoon belonged to Austin Ayoubi
A mark of 7.77, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad29 Mar 2032
Kyle Duncan dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Boardroom29 Mar 2032
Minnesota United FC bank $866.7K from an old deal
The unglamorous genius of a well-written contract. Mauricio González is somebody else's player now, and $866.7K has arrived because the people who sold him thought further ahead than the transfer window.
Squad29 Mar 2032
Austin Ayoubi finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Minnesota United FC have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Player ratings29 Mar 2032
Off the bench and decisive: Elias Franco
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Minnesota United FC were going nowhere until he came on.
In brief
- Market Brenden Johnson leaves for nothing
- Market George Aaronson leaves for nothing
- Market Minnesota United FC put Miguel Guzmán up for sale