Marked for Miles Aaronson
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match20 Jan 2048
Position 14, 24 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad20 Jan 2048
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market20 Jan 2048
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ivan Dos Santos will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Diego Football Club the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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Uneasy
Squad13 Jan 2048
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad13 Jan 2048
Tyler McKennie: 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.” San Diego Football Club have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad13 Jan 2048
Memphis Gakpo 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.
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Uneasy
The terraces6 Jan 2048
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad6 Jan 2048
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad6 Jan 2048
Christian Howard: 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.” San Diego Football Club have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom6 Jan 2048
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad6 Jan 2048
Oribe Edson has been here 10 seasons
48 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad6 Jan 2048
A move Adam Weah 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. Adam Weah is living that version at San Diego Football Club, and it tends to show in the first month.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Dec 2047
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Dec 2047
Ivan Dos Santos 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.
Squad30 Dec 2047
33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Dec 2047
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match23 Dec 2047
24 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market23 Dec 2047
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at San Diego Football Club is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Dec 2047
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
54 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Dec 2047
Ivan Dos Santos 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces9 Dec 2047
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad9 Dec 2047
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad9 Dec 2047
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Dos Santos 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.
Squad9 Dec 2047
52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad9 Dec 2047
“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.
Market9 Dec 2047
Sean Acosta is 20, and San Diego Football Club have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Uneasy
Boardroom2 Dec 2047
The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.
Squad2 Dec 2047
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
68 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Dec 2047
“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.
Squad2 Dec 2047
Memphis Gakpo 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.
Squad2 Dec 2047
61 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market2 Dec 2047
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Tyler McKennie has his answer from San Diego Football Club; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Nov 2047
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match25 Nov 2047
24 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad25 Nov 2047
A fracture rules Jordan Moore out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Diego Football Club will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Nov 2047
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
82 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad18 Nov 2047
A fracture rules Jordan Moore out for 25 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Diego Football Club will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad18 Nov 2047
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces11 Nov 2047
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad11 Nov 2047
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
89 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Nov 2047
A fracture rules Jordan Moore out for 32 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Diego Football Club will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom4 Nov 2047
The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Interim Coach clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.
Squad4 Nov 2047
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
96 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom4 Nov 2047
Not an interim appointment — an institution with an empty coaching office. Somebody unfamiliar will run the sessions this week, and the question of how a club gets into this state is one the board will be asked and will not answer.
Squad4 Nov 2047
A fracture rules Jordan Moore out for 39 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Diego Football Club will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom4 Nov 2047
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad4 Nov 2047
278 appearances across 15 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and San Diego Football Club know what they have.
Boardroom4 Nov 2047
“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Interim Coach recited it perfectly.
Squad4 Nov 2047
“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.
Market4 Nov 2047
Carlos Marquez is 20, and San Diego Football Club have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Crisis
Squad28 Oct 2047
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
103 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom28 Oct 2047
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match28 Oct 2047
24 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
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Crisis
Squad21 Oct 2047
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miles Aaronson
110 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Diego Football Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Oct 2047
A fracture rules Jordan Moore out for 53 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Diego Football Club will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Oct 2047
Memphis Gakpo 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.