Tim Parker

Central Defender - New York Red Bulls
26 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Tim Parker

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The New York Red Bulls Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

6 matches without a win for New York Red Bulls

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around New York Red Bulls are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Emil Forsberg yet — 8.37

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.37 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at New York Red Bulls

Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty 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.

Squad

Jorge Ruvalcaba 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Tim Parker

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tim Parker, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

One moment undoes Ronald Donkor

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

In brief

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The New York Red Bulls Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

New York Red Bulls silence New York City

A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 4‑0, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.

Player ratings

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting wins the derby

There are goals, and then there are goals against that particular opponent. The New York Red Bulls support have their bragging rights for a year and they know exactly whose name is on them.

Market

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting raises the bar for New York Red Bulls

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at New York Red Bulls heard it as anything else.

Squad

Emil Forsberg signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Emil Forsberg commits to New York Red Bulls for another 2 years.

Squad

Gustav Berggren in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at New York Red Bulls this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

New York Red Bulls may not be able to give Julián Bazán what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Julián Bazán wants continental football; whether New York Red Bulls can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Market

Emil Forsberg told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Emil Forsberg has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at New York Red Bulls.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Roald Mitchell

At 23 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.

Squad

Words at New York Red Bulls training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty 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.

In brief