The San Jose Earthquakes Sentinel
Market1 Oct 2029
Isaac Walker hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what San Jose Earthquakes can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
Malcolm Fry says San Jose Earthquakes went back on their word
“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.
Squad1 Oct 2029
A falling-out at San Jose Earthquakes
Hernán López Muñoz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Ousséni Bouda 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.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
Ryan Hollingshead gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market1 Oct 2029
Eduard Löwen linked with a move away
The name of Eduard Löwen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. San Jose Earthquakes say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
Jason Shokalook gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jason Shokalook is on it.
Market1 Oct 2029
Talks stall between San Jose Earthquakes and Brian Anunga
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Match1 Oct 2029
Continental football is in reach for San Jose Earthquakes
38 points from position 6. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
In brief
- The dugout Brian Schwake knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Sebastian Gomez: “I am not a substitute”
- Squad Lance Rozeboom is not saying it is over