Sam Junqua

Left Back - Real Salt Lake
14 Feb 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Sam Junqua

23 Edition

The Real Salt Lake Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Real Salt Lake

Morgan Guilavogui 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.

Market

Juan José Arias has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Real Salt Lake can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Tyler Wolff

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Juan José Arias 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 Juan José Arias trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Stijn Spierings story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Stijn Spierings signs something — a contract at Real Salt Lake or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Squad

Philip Quinton moves up the pecking order

Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Real Salt Lake than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Real Salt Lake Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Real Salt Lake say no — this time

The offer from Chiapas for Juan José Arias was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

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.

Boardroom

Philip Quinton has agreed to leave Real Salt Lake for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Match

San Jose Earthquakes take the points off Real Salt Lake

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Morgan Guilavogui

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Jack Dest: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

Colin Guske 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 Real Salt Lake this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alexandros Katranis

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Taylor Booth moves up the pecking order

Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Real Salt Lake than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.

In brief