Daniel Morris

Left Forward - Free Agent
19 Sep 2038
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Morris

629 Edition

The Portland Timbers Gazette

16 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Joseph Jones out for 77 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Portland Timbers will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Moses Amasi yet — 8.81

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.81 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

Nobody wins at Portland Timbers

12 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

Eduardo Edson says Portland Timbers 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Daniel Morris

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Morris will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Portland Timbers the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Portland Timbers

Juan Mosquera 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Adrian Wibowo

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Kevin Lugo falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Portland Timbers see off Sporting Kansas City

Three points for Portland Timbers, 3‑1 the final word against Sporting Kansas City in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

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The Portland Timbers Gazette

2 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Joseph Jones out for 91 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Portland Timbers will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

José Luis Caicedo, 36, rolls back the years — 9.04

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.04 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Only the photograph left for Roald Mitchell

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Roald Mitchell will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Portland Timbers the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Portland Timbers

José Luis Caicedo 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.

Squad

José Luis Caicedo is carrying Portland Timbers

11 goals and a season average of 7.54. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Portland Timbers make home a hard place to visit

11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Market

Portland Timbers say no — this time

The offer from Inter Miami CF for David Zardes 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.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Portland Timbers

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.

Squad

Kevin Lugo falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief