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The Real Salt Lake Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Fee done, terms next for Matt Freese

Real Salt Lake and New York City have settled on $4.3M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

The window shuts on the Haji Wright deal

Real Salt Lake ran out of time with Coventry City. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Deadline passes with 16 signed and 0 gone

That is the business done at Real Salt Lake until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

An offer of $610.0K for Peyton Miller

Real Salt Lake have gone to New England Revolution with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Real Salt Lake go back to the board over Matt Freese

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $4.5M — a club that wants Matt Freese enough to be asked twice.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Morgan Guilavogui signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Morgan Guilavogui commits to Real Salt Lake for another 4 years.

Market10 Aug 2026

New York Red Bulls watching Emeka Eneli

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Real Salt Lake have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Home is on Dominik Marczuk'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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Real Salt Lake

Pablo Ruiz 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.

In brief

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The Real Salt Lake Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Real Salt Lake bid $18.2M for Haji Wright

The offer went to Coventry City this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A career in one shirt: Justen Glad

12 seasons and 280 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Michael Creek due for a Real Salt Lake medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Rafael Cabral signs on for more

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

Stijn Spierings 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Real Salt Lake may not be able to give Pablo Ruiz what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Pablo Ruiz wants continental football; whether Real Salt Lake can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad3 Aug 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

49 months and counting on Diego Luna

Still no offer on the table, and Diego Luna’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Lukas Engel 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 Lukas Engel trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief