DeAndre Sargent

Right Back - Seattle Sounders
27 May 2035
Sunday
Process

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455 Edition

The Seattle Sounders Herald

16 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Only the photograph left for Niko Tsakiris

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Niko Tsakiris will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Seattle Sounders the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Dominik Chong Qui signs for Portland Timbers while still at Seattle Sounders

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Dominik Chong Qui has agreed terms with Portland Timbers for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

A row about effort at Seattle Sounders

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohamed Amoura was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Words exchanged at Seattle Sounders

Dominik Chong Qui and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mohamed Amoura

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

Boardroom

Dylan Acosta will join Seattle Sounders for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Dylan Acosta has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Seattle Sounders have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Transfer targets

Seattle Sounders rebuffed over Paul Moore

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Houston Dynamo have kept their man, and Seattle Sounders go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Los Angeles Football Club take the points off Seattle Sounders

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

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Luca De La Torre — 6.76

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.76, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

In brief

Back issues
442 Edition

The Seattle Sounders Herald

15 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Conor Grant has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Seattle Sounders

Mohamed Amoura and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A move James Weah would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. James Weah is living that version at Seattle Sounders, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Jeremías Lázaro 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.

Boardroom

Jovan Lukić will join Seattle Sounders for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Jovan Lukić has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Seattle Sounders have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad

Erik Dueñas is a square peg at Seattle Sounders

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout

Niko Tsakiris knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Seattle Sounders, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Seattle Sounders and Jay Williams are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market

The clock does Mohamed Amoura’s negotiating for him

7 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Seattle Sounders could ask drops and the wages Mohamed Amoura can ask rise.

In brief