The Real Salt Lake Post
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Market4 Jan 2027
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 dugout4 Jan 2027
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 dugout4 Jan 2027
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.
Market4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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
- Squad An empty peg next to Morgan Guilavogui
- Market Justen Glad slips out the side door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Lukas Engel
- Squad Extra work for Sam Junqua at Real Salt Lake