John Steffen

Left Forward - New York Red Bulls U20
24 Oct 2028
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The New York Red Bulls Gazette

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to New York Red Bulls's wait for a win

10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at New York Red Bulls has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

New York Red Bulls let it slip despite Cristian Dájome

Cristian Dájome had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Toronto FC were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings

A brace, and Cristian Dájome takes the afternoon — 8.85

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Cristian Dájome provided it, and the 8.85 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Andrew Rick

New York Red Bulls and Philadelphia Union have settled on $920.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Player ratings

Emil Forsberg, 36, rolls back the years — 8.17

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.17 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

The dugout

Rafael Mosquera says New York Red Bulls went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets

New York Red Bulls rebuffed over Eddy Davis

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Philadelphia Union have kept their man, and New York Red Bulls go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Tempers go at New York Red Bulls

Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at New York Red Bulls

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.

In brief