DeAndre Moore

Attacking Midfielder (L) - FC Dallas
15 Dec 2040
Saturday
Process

Marked for DeAndre Moore

713 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

26 Mar 2040
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dylan Pepi

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FC Dallas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Nicholas Simmonds yet — 8.55

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.55 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Nestor Salcedo: 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.” FC Dallas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

DeAndre Moore 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 FC Dallas can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Cameron Dempsey has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Finn Surman 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.

Match

Nicholas Simmonds sends FC Dallas past Houston Dynamo

It finished 3‑2, and it was Nicholas Simmonds’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FC Dallas.

Squad

Nicholas Simmonds 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ashton Gordon

Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
687 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

26 Sep 2039
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at FC Dallas

Finn Surman was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Ianis Puscas

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

FC Dallas see off Colorado Rapids

Three points for FC Dallas, 1‑0 the final word against Colorado Rapids in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Aleksandr Guboglo was immovable

18 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad

Words at FC Dallas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thiago Delgado 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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Ianis Puscas

A mark of 7.43, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

669 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

23 May 2039
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Thiago Delgado's — 8.75

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.75, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Dallas

Finn Surman was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Thiago Delgado sends FC Dallas past Minnesota United FC

It finished 2‑1, and it was Thiago Delgado’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FC Dallas.

Squad

Luca McKennie gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Amin Dabbabi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words at FC Dallas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thiago Delgado 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.

Squad

A promise honoured for Kaiden Moore

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. FC Dallas told Kaiden Moore something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Boardroom

FC Dallas keep producing them

145 graduates from an academy now rated 9 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

Market

The shop window has DeAndre Moore in it

FC Dallas have let the market know DeAndre Moore can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief