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Rumor Watch: Cătălin Cîrjan
Minnesota United, having missed out on Callum McCowatt, have turned their attention to Cătălin Cîrjan, a 23-year-old midfielder from Dinamo Bucharest per reports from Romania. If you’re short on time — Hi Hank! — here’s the quick and dirty: Cîrjan is a very, very good offensive player and one of the best midfielders in the…
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Five Things I Think I Think About Minnesota United Right Now
After last weekend’s strange and wonderful breakout for Minnesota United, I expected this week to tell us whether that was a repeatable or a random-one off. Their 3-3 draw with Orlando definitively showed it was… both? Neither? It was exciting, that much is certain, beyond that, it’s hard to say anything else is. One game…
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A Few Short Thoughts About Minnesota United’s Win Over San Jose
I’m not usually one to react to one game, but last weekend’s 5-1 beatdown of San Jose validated a lot of what I’ve been thinking about the team as well as prompting some questions, so here we go. Weird Formation/Arpeggi All season, even when they were winning games, there was this sense that Minnesota was…
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Rumor Watch: Callum McCowatt
One thing that didn’t change when Adrian Heath departed Minnesota United’s front office was the team’s preference to play transfer dealings very, VERY close to the vest. The team believes – and not without evidence – that publicizing interest in a player can only make the transfer more difficult. The tradeoff is that while they…
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Right Back at the Right Time: Kyle Duncan is a Loon
I would wager, with just days before the 2026 season opens, few teams in MLS had a bigger glaring need than Minnesota United did at right back. The problem is worse than it might seem at first blush. Yes, there are three recognized right backs on the roster — Jullian Gressel, Bongokuhle Hlongwane, and D.J.…
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Tactics or Cosmology: Positioning a Star in Minnesota United’s Sky
Ed. note: This piece was originally published before the signing of Kyle Duncan. Teams with a single star attacker are often called heliocentric. Given that, the 2025 Loons were more like an asteroid belt: No one big danger man to worry about, but enough smaller threats to get the job done most of the time.…
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Julian Gressel’s Fit With Minnesota United: Solid or Shoehorned?
