DeAndre Steffen

Striker - Seattle Sounders U18
4 Mar 2029
Sunday
Process

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The Seattle Sounders Herald

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Yeimar Gómez Andrade: 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.” Seattle Sounders have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Paul Arriola puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Seattle Sounders, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

No deal for Ender Echenique at that price

Seattle Sounders offered $2.8M; FC Cincinnati 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

Dejan Joveljić raises the bar for Seattle Sounders

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Seattle Sounders heard it as anything else.

Squad

Cristian Roldan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Cristian Roldan and Seattle Sounders agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Seattle Sounders

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

Transfer targets

Seattle Sounders make their move for Cole Mrowka

$89.0K on the table at Columbus Crew. 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

Graduation day at Seattle Sounders

4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Pedro de la Vega 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