The Colorado Rapids Gazette
Boardroom5 Mar 2035
Colorado Rapids run out of patience with Interim Coach
The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Interim Coach clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.
Boardroom5 Mar 2035
A stranger takes charge at Colorado Rapids
The coaching staff has emptied out entirely and there was nobody internal to promote, so the club has appointed a name almost none of its supporters will recognise. Clubs recover from this; none of them enjoy explaining it.
Market5 Mar 2035
Alan Guzmán has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Colorado Rapids they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom5 Mar 2035
Interim Coach minds the shop at Colorado Rapids
“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Interim Coach recited it perfectly.
Transfer targets5 Mar 2035
$160.0K settles it between the clubs for Daniel Johnson
Philadelphia Union have accepted the money. What Colorado Rapids do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market5 Mar 2035
Gio Robinson 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 Colorado Rapids can pretend not to have heard.
Market5 Mar 2035
Colorado Rapids sell Connor Dempsey for $2.1M
Connor Dempsey has left for Orlando City in a $2.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Boardroom5 Mar 2035
Graduation day at Colorado Rapids
10 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets5 Mar 2035
Los Angeles Football Club tell Colorado Rapids: Sean Dempsey is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at Colorado Rapids
- Market Colorado Rapids promote Tim Johnson from within
- Squad Words at Colorado Rapids training over how hard people work