Mark Pepi

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Process

Marked for Mark Pepi

409 Edition

The New York Red Bulls Gazette

29 May 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Nicolás Medina asks to leave New York Red Bulls

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Maximilian Dietz 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 Red Bulls this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Andy Rojas runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

New York Red Bulls come up short against New England Revolution

New England Revolution left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at New York Red Bulls training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cameron Harper 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.

Squad

New York Red Bulls count the cost of losing Mark Pepi

19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 James Bradley left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

Max Arfsten gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Max Arfsten is on it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Dylan Weah

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dylan Weah, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
404 Edition

The New York Red Bulls Gazette

24 Apr 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Window shuts: 22 in, 6 out at New York Red Bulls

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 22 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Neil Pierre

New York Red Bulls asked and FC Cincinnati said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Still nobody has beaten New York Red Bulls

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market

Eyes on Jordan Adebayo-Smith again

The phone has started ringing about Jordan Adebayo-Smith again, and this time the name on the line is Toronto FC. New York Red Bulls are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Maximilian Dietz 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.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Jorge Ruvalcaba — 7.28

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 11 actions, 7.28, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad

New York Red Bulls lose Mark Pepi

56 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

A falling-out at New York Red Bulls

Jeremy Rafanello and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Maximilian Dietz was the difference for New York Red Bulls

Marked 7.30. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

390 Edition

The New York Red Bulls Gazette

16 Jan 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

84 days out for Cody Baker after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. New York Red Bulls will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Bruno Damiani 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 Red Bulls this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Jorge Ruvalcaba gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jorge Ruvalcaba is on it.

Market

Andy Rojas linked with a move away

The name of Andy Rojas keeps appearing in other people's back pages. New York Red Bulls say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

The clock does Jannis Heuer’s negotiating for him

1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee New York Red Bulls could ask drops and the wages Jannis Heuer can ask rise.

The dugout

The manager makes Fabrizzio Orozco a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at New York Red Bulls. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief