The Seattle Sounders Herald
Squad28 Jan 2036
A fracture rules Erik Dueñas out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Seattle Sounders will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Jan 2036
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jack Steffen
46 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Seattle Sounders lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Jan 2036
Tempers go at Seattle Sounders
Matt Freese 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.
Squad28 Jan 2036
Nahual Torres 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.
Market28 Jan 2036
Seattle Sounders promote Sam Wright from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sam Wright has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market28 Jan 2036
Seattle Sounders promote George Wright from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. George Wright has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market David Ferreira steps up from the Seattle Sounders academy
- Market Gio Adams steps up from the Seattle Sounders academy
- The dugout Matt Freese knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Tyler Weah