The New York City Post
Squad23 Apr 2040
Patrick Yazbek breaks a bone — 102 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 102 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market23 Apr 2040
New York City say no — this time
The offer from Chicago Fire for Mamoutou Berthé was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings23 Apr 2040
A brace, and Lautaro Piola takes the afternoon — 8.51
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lautaro Piola provided it, and the 8.51 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market23 Apr 2040
Renato Giordano’s move to FC Cincinnati falls through
The deal that would have taken Renato Giordano to FC Cincinnati has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to New York City with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Market23 Apr 2040
Charlotte Football Club watching Jonny Shore
The interest is real enough to have reached print. New York City have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad23 Apr 2040
Talles Magno 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 New York City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market23 Apr 2040
DeAndre Moore has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around New York City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match21 Apr 2040
Lautaro Piola sends New York City past FC Cincinnati
It finished 3‑1, and it was Lautaro Piola’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to New York City.
Squad23 Apr 2040
Juan Cruz Crisafulli wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and New York City know it.
In brief
- Squad Tariq Lamptey falls out with a teammate over standards
- Player ratings Talles Magno runs at them all day
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Lautaro Piola