The offer from Real Salt Lake for Frédéric Robert 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.
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colorado Rapids lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Andres Arteaga has just signed for Colorado Rapids, and for once the answer mattered.
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colorado Rapids lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Colorado Rapids will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colorado Rapids lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Colorado Rapids will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tyler Dempsey and Colorado Rapids agree another 3 years.
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colorado Rapids lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Colorado Rapids will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Colorado Rapids have had the benefit of it.
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colorado Rapids lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Colorado Rapids will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Colorado Rapids are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colorado Rapids lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Colorado Rapids will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colorado Rapids lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Colorado Rapids will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Colorado Rapids will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colorado Rapids lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Colorado Rapids will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
66 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colorado Rapids lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Colorado Rapids will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
73 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colorado Rapids lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Colorado Rapids will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.