The Vancouver Whitecaps Sentinel
Market24 Dec 2035
Only the photograph left for Micah Burton
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Micah Burton will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Vancouver Whitecaps the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Dec 2035
A falling-out at Vancouver Whitecaps
Ruben Ramos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Dec 2035
Josh Torquato 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.
Squad24 Dec 2035
Vancouver Whitecaps count the cost of losing George Steffen
33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout24 Dec 2035
Ruben Ramos asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout24 Dec 2035
The manager makes an example of Victor Barraza
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Market The clock does Jonathan Sirois’s negotiating for him
- Market The Justin Tillman story refuses to die
- Squad Word from the training ground: Federico Gradicola
- The dugout Ryan Moore keeps his manager's vote