Real Salt Lake

American MLS Western Conference
27 Aug 2026
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The Real Salt Lake Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market24 Aug 2026

Real Salt Lake turn down Vitesse for Stijn Spierings

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

A brace, and Morgan Guilavogui takes the afternoon — 8.81

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Morgan Guilavogui provided it, and the 8.81 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market24 Aug 2026

Noel Caliskan puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Real Salt Lake, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market24 Aug 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.

Market24 Aug 2026

Juan Manuel Sanabria 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.

Squad24 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Real Salt Lake get the job done against Seattle Sounders

A 3‑1 win over Seattle Sounders, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad24 Aug 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.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

Real Salt Lake supporters have found a favourite in Dominik Marczuk

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Dominik Marczuk has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

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The Real Salt Lake Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Aug 2026

9 saves: Rafael Cabral was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match12 Aug 2026

Real Salt Lake out of the cup

Toronto FC ended it 1‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Both of them Stijn Spierings's — 8.15

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.15, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market17 Aug 2026

Lausanne-Sport join the queue for Morgan Guilavogui

Add another name to the list: Lausanne-Sport have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Morgan Guilavogui. The answer from Real Salt Lake has not changed — yet.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Real Salt Lake to lose Philip Quinton for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Philip Quinton has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

The window shuts on the Chris Brady deal

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

Squad17 Aug 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Real Salt Lake

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

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Door shut on Leonardo Valencia

Real Salt Lake asked and Cortulua said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

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The Real Salt Lake Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match8 Aug 2026

St. Louis CITY SC punish Real Salt Lake for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Tyler Wolff will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Real Salt Lake escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on Chris Brady

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Real Salt Lake have done the hard part with Chicago Fire, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Stijn Spierings goes up and wins it — 7.62

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.62 for the rest of it.

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.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Real Salt Lake go back to the board over Zac McGraw

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $240.0K — a club that wants Zac McGraw 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Real Salt Lake rebuffed over Peyton Miller

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. New England Revolution have kept their man, and Real Salt Lake go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Too dear: Real Salt Lake walk away from Zac McGraw

$230.0K was the most the club would pay and Portland Timbers were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market10 Aug 2026

Victor Olatunji attracts admirers

The name of Victor Olatunji has come up in conversations Real Salt Lake were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief

1 Edition

The Real Salt Lake Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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

Real Salt Lake rebuffed over Marlon Fossey

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Standard Liege have kept their man, and Real Salt Lake go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Talks stall between Real Salt Lake and Philip Quinton

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief