The Minnesota United FC Chronicle
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Jefferson Díaz keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Minnesota United FC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market23 Nov 2026
Peter Stroud is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Minnesota United FC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Minnesota United FC
Julian Gressel and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
When it matters, Mauricio González plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market23 Nov 2026
The Tomás Chancalay question follows Minnesota United FC around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tomás Chancalay’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Mauricio González knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Minnesota United FC, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes Morris Duggan a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Minnesota United FC. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Kenyel Michel is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Wil Trapp is the talk of the training ground
Sharpest man there all week, by every account. It is the quietest line on this page and it usually runs the week before somebody’s run in the side begins.
In brief
- Squad Alec Smir back in training
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Devin Padelford at Toronto FC