Justin Wright

Striker - New York Red Bulls
4 Feb 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Justin Wright

101 Edition

The New York Red Bulls Gazette

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Dylan Robinson is out at New York Red Bulls

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

Boardroom

The New York Red Bulls board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Boardroom

George Turner takes charge at New York Red Bulls

“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.

The dugout

Justin Wright: 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.” New York Red Bulls have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

New York Red Bulls may not be able to give Keaton Parks what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Keaton Parks wants continental football; whether New York Red Bulls can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at New York Red Bulls

Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The terraces

New York Red Bulls supporters have found a favourite in Brooklyn Raines

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Brooklyn Raines has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout

Jorge Ruvalcaba gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

New York Red Bulls get the job done against Nashville SC

A 1‑0 win over Nashville SC, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief