I hoped that this day wouldn’t come this year, that it wouldn’t come for years, plural.
Even as I was waiting for the hammer to drop, for Minnesota United to announce that they had declined the contract option of Jérôme Thiesson, I hoped that I had heard wrong, that something would change. But it didn’t, and here we are.
Midway through the 2017 season, I wrote an article, titled “Why I’m Jerome Thiesson’s biggest fan,” about how Jerry had quickly become my favorite Loon. It all started at his first training session, which also happened to be the first training session that I covered.