Sam Brooks

Left Midfielder - CF Montreal U20
17 Jan 2036
Thursday
Process

Marked for Sam Brooks

452 Edition

The CF Montreal Gazette

26 Mar 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Leonai Souza out for 105 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason CF Montreal will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Carlos López

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

Squad

Leonai Souza: 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.” CF Montreal have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dante Sealy

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

No end in sight to CF Montreal's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at CF Montreal has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Dante Sealy 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 CF Montreal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Denner wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Player ratings

Beau LeRoux stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.93 on the card, and the CF Montreal support went home talking about one name.

Match

CF Montreal and Nashville SC take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
424 Edition

The CF Montreal Gazette

11 Sep 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Dante Sealy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

14 unbeaten for CF Montreal

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation CF Montreal did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Tempers go at CF Montreal

Dante Sealy 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.

Squad

Beau LeRoux 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

CF Montreal make home a hard place to visit

9 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.

Match

CF Montreal see off Columbus Crew

Three points for CF Montreal, 1‑0 the final word against Columbus Crew in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Sam Brooks out for 28 days

The medical room confirms 28 days on the sidelines for Sam Brooks, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Matty Longstaff signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matty Longstaff and CF Montreal agree another 1 years.

Player ratings

Henadii Synchuk in the eights

A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief