It’s hard to believe that Atlanta United will kick off its 7th season in 2023. And it’s clear that all Atlanta fans will be looking for much, much better fortunes than what they witnessed in 2022. It felt for a while like a new Atlanta player (Miles Robinson, Brad Guzan, Ozzie Alonso, etc.) was injured every week, but the main storyline presented itself toward the end of the year in the form of a standoff between head coach Gonzalo Pineda and Josef Martinez following a 2-1 loss to the Portland Timbers, leading to the latter’s suspension and essentially the beginning of the end of an increasingly fractured relationship between the club icon and the front office.