The New England Revolution Chronicle
The terraces18 Nov 2030
Supporters organise against the New England Revolution board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad18 Nov 2030
Diego Daguerre damages knee ligaments — 52 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 52 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom18 Nov 2030
Pressure builds in the New England Revolution boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market18 Nov 2030
Cristiano Oliveira hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what New England Revolution can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout18 Nov 2030
Mauricio Medrano: 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 England Revolution have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Nov 2030
Words exchanged at New England Revolution
Boris Moltenis 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 dugout18 Nov 2030
Tanner Beason is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Squad18 Nov 2030
Chris Lema falls out with a teammate over standards
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.
The dugout18 Nov 2030
Boris Moltenis knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Boris Moltenis trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Aaron Pulisic
- Market Julián Lobelos runs his contract down
- Market Talks stall between New England Revolution and Walker Moore