The Colorado Rapids Gazette
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Window shuts: 17 in, 0 out at Colorado Rapids
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 17 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Gabriel Lozano
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Colorado Rapids have done the hard part with Veracruz, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Colorado Rapids baulk at the price for Blake Gillingham
Houston Dynamo wanted more than $590.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Colorado Rapids
Zack Steffen 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Loïc Williams stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Loïc Williams and Colorado Rapids agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Darren Yapi
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nico Hansen attracts admirers
The name of Nico Hansen has come up in conversations Colorado Rapids were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: James Brooks joins the Colorado Rapids first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. James Brooks is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Colorado Rapids promote Gio Acosta from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gio Acosta has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Sean Morris steps up from the Colorado Rapids academy
- Match Darren Yapi the difference as Colorado Rapids beat Seattle Sounders
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Keegan Rosenberry