The FC Dallas Gazette
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at FC Dallas
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
Window shuts: 16 in, 23 out at FC Dallas
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 23 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
Still nobody in the FC Dallas dugout
36 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Tempers go at FC Dallas
Daniel was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market6 Aug 2029
The Stuart Hawkins conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Philadelphia Union will make the call about Stuart Hawkins this week. FC Dallas have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
Inter Miami CF tell FC Dallas: Tyler Boyd is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
Wages swallow 201% of the FC Dallas income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Squad6 Aug 2029
A smaller club would suit Daniel now
He has had enough of the noise. Whether FC Dallas can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Too much change too quickly at FC Dallas
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Squad DeAndre Moore makes the team of the month
- The dugout Cándido Ramírez asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout AJ Marcucci gets it from the manager