Moreno, 23, was lauded as one of Portland's promising young players before this season. An alleged rift with coach Giovanni Savarese has led to a transfer request.

Maaaaaann… things are getting pretty grim in the house of the Timbers. Santi has so much talent but has had a rough year and apparently having some issues with Gio.

All I hope at this point is he can go somewhere that makes him happy and that somewhere isn’t another western conference team. Regardless though, this makes me very sad.

Edit: More details in this “emergency” podcast from Soccer Made in Portland (the podcast run by the author of the above article): https://www.oregonlive.com/podcasts/2023/07/soccer-made-in-portland-podcast-reaction-to-santiago-morenos-transfer-request.html

side note: this is such a bittersweet thing to make as my first Lemmy post :(