Walker Yedlin

Left Forward - New York City
25 Nov 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Walker Yedlin

168 Edition

The New York City Post

15 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Thiago out for 137 days

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

Player ratings

Rodrigo Rodríguez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Chizoba Okoh keeps New York City in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Hannes Wolf 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 New York City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Brayan León

17 goals and a season average of 7.20 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Market

New York City may not be able to give Jhamir D'Arrigo what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jhamir D'Arrigo wants continental football; whether New York City can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

The terraces

New York City supporters have found a favourite in Walker Yedlin

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Walker Yedlin has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

New York City get the job done against Orlando City

A 2‑0 win over Orlando City, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Match

Orlando City take the points off New York City

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

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87 Edition

The New York City Post

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Hannes Wolf

Successful dribbles: 64. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Rodrigo Rodríguez breaks a bone — 27 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Matt Freese attracts admirers

The name of Matt Freese has come up in conversations New York City were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

The run at home goes on for New York City

11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

Tempers go at New York City

Hannes Wolf 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

Nicolás Fernández Mercau 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.

Boardroom

New York City beat the market to Eric Miller from Portland Timbers

Portland Timbers will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Eric Miller has pre-agreed a move to New York City, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Market

Julián Fernández wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Player ratings

Bénie Traoré was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.19. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief