Tim Wright

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Marked for Tim Wright

738 Edition

The CF Montreal Gazette

17 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tim Wright breaks a bone — 14 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Owen Graham-Roache scores twice — 8.73

Two goals and a mark of 8.73 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Tempers go at CF Montreal

Henadii Synchuk 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

Tomás Avilés 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

Owen Graham-Roache sends CF Montreal past New England Revolution

It finished 2‑1, and it was Owen Graham-Roache’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to CF Montreal.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Henadii Synchuk

“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.

Player ratings

Alex Reyna runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 9. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Still no signature from Giovani Bravo

1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what CF Montreal could get for him.

Market

Daniel Moreno placed on the list

CF Montreal have made Daniel Moreno available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

Back issues
737 Edition

The CF Montreal Gazette

10 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Columbus Crew punish CF Montreal for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Renzo Uriburu will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at CF Montreal escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Squad

Tim Wright breaks a bone — 21 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

CF Montreal leaking at the back

8 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match

5 matches without a win for CF Montreal

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around CF Montreal are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Renzo Uriburu delivers — 7.67

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Renzo Uriburu scored, was marked 7.67, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Tempers go at CF Montreal

Jalen Neal 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

Words at CF Montreal training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Avilés 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.

Match

Renzo Uriburu’s goal not enough for CF Montreal

Renzo Uriburu scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Columbus Crew, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Tomás Avilés 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.

In brief

736 Edition

The CF Montreal Gazette

3 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Morris

20 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

Tim Wright breaks a bone — 28 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Brandan Craig says CF Montreal went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

CF Montreal leaking at the back

7 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Player ratings

Jude Terry pops up at the right end — 7.58

7.58, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Market

Tomás Avilés wants more than CF Montreal are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Match

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

4 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

George Marks signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” George Marks and CF Montreal agree another 2 years.

Match

CF Montreal come up short against FC Cincinnati

FC Cincinnati left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

735 Edition

The CF Montreal Gazette

27 Aug 2040
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Morris

27 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.

Match

CF Montreal let it slip despite Owen Graham-Roache

Owen Graham-Roache had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and New York Red Bulls were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Squad

Tim Wright breaks a bone — 35 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Owen Graham-Roache scores twice — 8.53

Two goals and a mark of 8.53 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Giovani Bravo is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at CF Montreal is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Valter Sedin: 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.

Match

CF Montreal are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad

Tempers go at CF Montreal

Jalen Neal 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

A bad afternoon for CF Montreal against New York Red Bulls

2‑4 to New York Red Bulls, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief