The San Diego Football Club Sentinel
Squad23 Mar 2043
Simon Kompany keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” San Diego Football Club may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market23 Mar 2043
Santiago Herrera has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around San Diego Football Club they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market23 Mar 2043
George Wright puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at San Diego Football Club, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Mar 2043
Tempers go at San Diego Football Club
Luis Otávio 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.
Squad23 Mar 2043
Vlad Oargă 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.
Match21 Mar 2043
Memphis Gakpo’s goal not enough for San Diego Football Club
Memphis Gakpo scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Austin FC, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad23 Mar 2043
The manager makes an example of Lucas Meuli
“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 ratings23 Mar 2043
Nobody could get near Abdullah Al-Khaibari
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings23 Mar 2043
Off the bench and decisive: Diego Rossi
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. San Diego Football Club were going nowhere until he came on.
In brief
- Market Paul Brooks leaves for nothing
- Market George Robinson leaves for nothing