David Pepi

Striker - Real Salt Lake U18
31 May 2028
Wednesday
Process

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The Real Salt Lake Post

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Pablo Ruiz: 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.” Real Salt Lake have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Alexandros Katranis 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 The request is on a desk at Real Salt Lake, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

An offer of $2.6M for Bruno Caicedo

Real Salt Lake have gone to Vancouver Whitecaps with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

The dugout

Stijn Spierings frozen out at Real Salt Lake

This is not rotation. Stijn Spierings has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Real Salt Lake is pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets

No deal for Ender Echenique at that price

Real Salt Lake offered $2.5M; 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

Juan Manuel Sanabria has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Real Salt Lake can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Pablo Ruiz 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 Real Salt Lake this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Real Salt Lake

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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Noah Cobb

Real Salt Lake asked and Colorado Rapids said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief