James Johnson

Right Midfielder - FC Dallas U18
2 May 2029
Wednesday
Process

Marked for James Johnson

84 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Osaze Urhoghide: 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.

Transfer targets

No deal for Djordje Mihailović at that price

FC Dallas offered $11.0M; Toronto FC said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market

Jonathan Sirois hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Dallas can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

FC Dallas make their move for Osvald Søe

$790.0K on the table at San Diego Football Club. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Boardroom

6 academy players handed senior numbers at FC Dallas

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.

Market

Seattle Sounders watching Diego García

The interest is real enough to have reached print. FC Dallas have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Lalas Abubakar signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lalas Abubakar commits to FC Dallas for another 2 years.

Squad

A row about effort at FC Dallas

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ramiro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

One of our own: James Johnson joins the FC Dallas first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. James Johnson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief