The FC Dallas Gazette
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Osaze Urhoghide: 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.” FC Dallas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
No deal for Djordje Mihailović at that price
FC Dallas offered $11.0M; Toronto FC 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Jonathan Sirois hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Dallas can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
FC Dallas make their move for Osvald Søe
$790.0K on the table at San Diego Football Club. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
6 academy players handed senior numbers at FC Dallas
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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Seattle Sounders watching Diego García
The interest is real enough to have reached print. FC Dallas have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Lalas Abubakar signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lalas Abubakar commits to FC Dallas for another 2 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
A row about effort at FC Dallas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ramiro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market6 Mar 2028
One of our own: James Johnson joins the FC Dallas first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. James Johnson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Sam Aaronson steps up from the FC Dallas academy
- Match FC Dallas come up short against San Diego Football Club
- Squad Diego García in a row with a teammate