The New York Red Bulls Gazette
Market29 May 2034
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.
Squad29 May 2034
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 ratings29 May 2034
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.
Match27 May 2034
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.
Squad29 May 2034
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.
Squad29 May 2034
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 dugout29 May 2034
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 dugout29 May 2034
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 dugout29 May 2034
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
- Squad Player of the week: Jordan Adebayo-Smith
- Looking ahead Fred Emmings goes back to face Charlotte Football Club
- The dugout Mark Turner does not fit this one