Sam Wright

Striker - Real Salt Lake
26 Dec 2032
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Marked for Sam Wright

245 Edition

The Real Salt Lake Post

7 Apr 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Apr 2031

Grant Leveille decides it from twelve yards

3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match2 Apr 2031

12 matches without a win for Real Salt Lake

The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Real Salt Lake are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom7 Apr 2031

The interim tag comes off Interim Coach

Real Salt Lake interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Interim Coach keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.

Match2 Apr 2031

The small margins put Real Salt Lake out

Out, 1‑1 to FC Dallas, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Transfer targets7 Apr 2031

Real Salt Lake agree $400.0K for Thomas Roberts

The clubs have shaken hands with Atlanta United FC; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Squad7 Apr 2031

A falling-out at Real Salt Lake

Stijn Spierings and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings7 Apr 2031

Christian Sargent runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout7 Apr 2031

No hiding place for William Lodmell

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to William Lodmell, and the manager let it.

Match2 Apr 2031

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 119 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Real Salt Lake had all but put away. FC Dallas will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

In brief

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239 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

24 Feb 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Market24 Feb 2031

FC Dallas sign James Sands for $4.2M

The paperwork is done: James Sands joins from New York City in a deal worth $4.2M. Now comes the harder part.

The dugout24 Feb 2031

Ajani Fortune says FC Dallas went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets24 Feb 2031

An offer of $1.1M for Chris Durkin

FC Dallas have gone to LA Galaxy with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad24 Feb 2031

Daniel 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 FC Dallas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad24 Feb 2031

A move Owen Otasowie would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Owen Otasowie is living that version at FC Dallas, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market24 Feb 2031

Eyes on Ajani Fortune again

The phone has started ringing about Ajani Fortune again, and this time the name on the line is Inter Miami CF. FC Dallas are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad24 Feb 2031

Words at FC Dallas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Konrad De la Fuente is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces24 Feb 2031

FC Dallas spend $4.2M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $4.2M for James Sands, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Market24 Feb 2031

Sam Wright moves on

Real Salt Lake pay $110.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

In brief

239 Edition

The Real Salt Lake Post

24 Feb 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market24 Feb 2031

Philadelphia Union come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Real Salt Lake did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets24 Feb 2031

Aaron Zardes due for a Real Salt Lake medical

Everything agreed with Orlando City, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets24 Feb 2031

Real Salt Lake bid $45.0K for Jon Gallagher

The offer went to Austin FC this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets24 Feb 2031

No deal for Griffin Dillon at that price

Real Salt Lake offered $210.0K; CF Montreal 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.

Squad24 Feb 2031

Aiden Hezarkhani 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 Real Salt Lake this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market24 Feb 2031

Real Salt Lake sign Sam Wright, one for the future

Sam Wright is 17, and Real Salt Lake have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market24 Feb 2031

Real Salt Lake sign Adam Johnson, one for the future

Adam Johnson is 20, and Real Salt Lake have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad24 Feb 2031

Real Salt Lake are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad24 Feb 2031

Adam Johnson signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Adam Johnson and Real Salt Lake agree another 4 years.

In brief