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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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More Than a Teardrop on the Fire: Ryotaro Ito Would Give Minnesota a Massive Attack
Last summer, one of the players connected to Minnesota at the very end of the transfer window was Billal Brahimi, a Nice player on loan to Belgium’s Sint-Truiden. I was hopeful he’d come to Minnesota mostly because he was the polar opposite of the rest of the team: Lightning fast, even with the ball at…
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Awaken the Augurs: Elijah Just Isn’t A One-Man Band
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Still More Questions Than Answers: Has Minnesota United Turned a Corner?
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Three Questions for Minnesota United as They Face L.A. Galaxy