Christian Wright

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972 Edition

The Colorado Rapids Gazette

13 Mar 2045
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad13 Mar 2045

Luca Johnson damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings13 Mar 2045

Both of them Miles Bradley's — 8.22

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.22, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad13 Mar 2045

A one-man rearguard from Jack Dempsey

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market13 Mar 2045

Inter Miami CF join the queue for Frédéric Robert

Add another name to the list: Inter Miami CF have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Frédéric Robert. The answer from Colorado Rapids has not changed — yet.

Market13 Mar 2045

Only the photograph left for Brandon Dest

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Brandon Dest will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Colorado Rapids the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad13 Mar 2045

A move Christian Wright 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. Christian Wright is living that version at Colorado Rapids, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom13 Mar 2045

Colorado Rapids beat the market to Owen Robinson from Vancouver Whitecaps

Vancouver Whitecaps will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Owen Robinson has pre-agreed a move to Colorado Rapids, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Match11 Mar 2045

Miles Bradley sends Colorado Rapids past San Diego Football Club

It finished 2‑1, and it was Miles Bradley’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Colorado Rapids.

Player ratings13 Mar 2045

Jordan Aaronson did the work nobody counts — 7.35

10 combined actions and 7.35. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

In brief

Back issues
939 Edition

The Chicago Fire Post

25 Jul 2044
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad25 Jul 2044

Nazareno Kihm breaks a bone — 126 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 126 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad25 Jul 2044

Carlos Borda keeps Chicago Fire in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad25 Jul 2044

Ivan Ramirez keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Chicago Fire may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad25 Jul 2044

Louay Labidi 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 Chicago Fire this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces25 Jul 2044

Chicago Fire supporters have found a favourite in Miles Steffen

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Miles Steffen has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings25 Jul 2044

Miles Steffen was the difference for Chicago Fire

Marked 7.73. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

885 Edition

The Chicago Fire Post

13 Jul 2043
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad13 Jul 2043

Arkadiusz Klich breaks a bone — 42 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market13 Jul 2043

Chicago Fire say no — this time

The offer from FC Cincinnati for Carlos Borda was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings13 Jul 2043

Up for the corner, and Sergio Oregel delivers — 7.65

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Sergio Oregel scored, was marked 7.65, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Match11 Jul 2043

No end in sight to Chicago Fire's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Chicago Fire has to find a result from somewhere.

Boardroom13 Jul 2043

Stelios Charalambous has agreed to leave Chicago Fire for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Market13 Jul 2043

Stelios Charalambous is on his way

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

Squad13 Jul 2043

Words at Chicago Fire training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nazareno Kihm 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.

Squad13 Jul 2043

Chicago Fire count the cost of losing Matt Robinson

25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad13 Jul 2043

Tempers go at Chicago Fire

Aaron Morris 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.

In brief