Aaron Long

Central Defender - Real Salt Lake
24 Nov 2026
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Marked for Aaron Long

16 Edition

The Real Salt Lake Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market16 Nov 2026

Noel Caliskan asks to leave Real Salt Lake

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market16 Nov 2026

Philip Quinton is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Real Salt Lake is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Real Salt Lake

Pablo Ruiz 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words at Real Salt Lake training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Manuel Sanabria 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.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Rudi Castro 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Noel Caliskan wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Real Salt Lake can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Real Salt Lake Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market9 Nov 2026

Alexandros Katranis 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 Real Salt Lake can pretend not to have heard.

Squad9 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Real Salt Lake

Stijn Spierings and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad9 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Real Salt Lake

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan Manuel Sanabria was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Home is on Alexandros Katranis's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Real Salt Lake are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Aaron Long signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aaron Long and Real Salt Lake agree another 2 years.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

Pablo Ruiz knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Pablo Ruiz trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market9 Nov 2026

Experience through the door at Real Salt Lake

Aaron Long arrives at 34 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

When it matters, Zach Booth 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.

Market9 Nov 2026

The Morgan Guilavogui question follows Real Salt Lake around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Morgan Guilavogui’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief