Ryan Aaronson

Defensive Midfielder - New England Revolution U20
14 Aug 2050
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ryan Aaronson

1246 Edition

The New England Revolution Chronicle

13 Jun 2050
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

16 matches without a win for New England Revolution

The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around New England Revolution are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ryan Aaronson

145 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. New England Revolution lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The terraces

Anger at New England Revolution spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

Tyler Musah keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” New England Revolution may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

No hiding place for Walker Tillman

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

Squad

Christian Vega stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Christian Vega and New England Revolution agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

Back issues
1236 Edition

The New England Revolution Chronicle

4 Apr 2050
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Pieros Georgiou damages knee ligaments — 34 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 34 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.

Market

Justin Bradley asks to leave New England Revolution

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Walker Brooks

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Tyler Musah runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

5 matches without a win for New England Revolution

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around New England Revolution are no longer polite ones.

Market

Aaron Reyna has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around New England Revolution they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Keisuke Tanaka 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.

Match

Nashville SC take the points off New England Revolution

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

New England Revolution count the cost of losing Ryan Aaronson

26 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

1232 Edition

The New England Revolution Chronicle

7 Mar 2050
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Justin Bradley puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at New England Revolution, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Aaron Reyna

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Aaron Reyna will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around New England Revolution the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

New England Revolution make home a hard place to visit

10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Boardroom

13 academy players handed senior numbers at New England Revolution

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Pieros Georgiou signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pieros Georgiou commits to New England Revolution for another 2 years.

Squad

Keisuke Tanaka 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.

Market

One of our own: Dylan Morris joins the New England Revolution first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dylan Morris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Aaron Ferreira steps up from the New England Revolution academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aaron Ferreira has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

New England Revolution count the cost of losing Ryan Aaronson

54 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief