The New England Revolution Chronicle
Match23 Sep 2045
No end in sight to New England Revolution's wait for a win
25 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at New England Revolution has to find a result from somewhere.
Match25 Sep 2045
Every point is an argument now for New England Revolution
Position 14 and 12 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market25 Sep 2045
Roberto Dos Santos 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.
Match23 Sep 2045
New England Revolution leaking at the back
7 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Player ratings25 Sep 2045
Paul Pulisic runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad25 Sep 2045
Giovanni D'Agostino 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.
Match23 Sep 2045
A bad afternoon for New England Revolution against Columbus Crew
0‑2 to Columbus Crew, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad25 Sep 2045
No hiding place for Adam Dest
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Dest, and the manager let it.
Squad25 Sep 2045
DeAndre Steffen dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Squad Christian Brooks has become a man the manager trusts
- Market Still no signature from Alex Weah
- Market New England Revolution put James Wright up for sale