Ricardo Wright

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Marked for Ricardo Wright

981 Edition

The Colorado Rapids Gazette

15 May 2045
From our football correspondent Steady

Market15 May 2045

Jack Musah 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 The request is on a desk at Colorado Rapids, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match13 May 2045

Real Salt Lake take the points off Colorado Rapids

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad15 May 2045

Words at Colorado Rapids training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mark Reyna 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.

Player ratings15 May 2045

Nobody could get near Miles Bradley

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad15 May 2045

Ricardo Wright signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ricardo Wright and Colorado Rapids agree another 3 years.

Squad15 May 2045

Jack Dempsey is still paying for one afternoon at Colorado Rapids

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

Back issues
980 Edition

The Colorado Rapids Gazette

8 May 2045
From our football correspondent Steady

Market8 May 2045

Frédéric Robert has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Colorado Rapids they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match8 May 2045

Colorado Rapids refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 19 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad8 May 2045

Jack Musah has been here 11 seasons

152 appearances across 11 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.

Squad8 May 2045

Lucas Herrington signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lucas Herrington commits to Colorado Rapids for another 2 years.

Boardroom8 May 2045

Colorado Rapids agree a free transfer for Danail Nedyalkov

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Match6 May 2045

Vancouver Whitecaps take the points off Colorado Rapids

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad8 May 2045

Mark Reyna 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.

Squad8 May 2045

The manager makes an example of Jack Dempsey

“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.

Market8 May 2045

Colorado Rapids sign Ricardo Wright, one for the future

Ricardo Wright is 20, and Colorado Rapids 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.

In brief