{"id":827330,"date":"2026-08-27T07:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827330\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:44:12","slug":"sounders-issue-open-letter-to-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827330\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounders issue open letter to community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a rough few months for the Seattle Sounders. On the field, they only recently ended one of the longest losing streaks in league history and they still haven\u2019t actually won a game in more than 100 days. Off the field, they just closed the books on what is apparently one of their toughest season-ticket renewals campaigns in club history.<\/p>\n<p>At least some of that seems to be turning around. Not only did the Sounders score a come-from-behind point against FC Cincinnati on Saturday, but they also made arguably their most significant signing since Ra\u00fal Ruid\u00edaz when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sounderatheart.com\/2026\/08\/key-takeaways-from-dejan-joveljics-first-sounders-press-conference\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">completed the transfer for Dejan Jovelji\u0107<\/a> on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Likely hoping to ride that momentum, Sounders majority owner Adrian Hanauer released an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundersfc.com\/news\/an-open-letter-to-the-sounders-community?ref=sounderatheart.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open letter<\/a>\u201d to the community on Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p>Among the highlights:<\/p>\n<p>Hanauer acknowledged that they\u2019ve heard from all sorts of fans who have expressed frustrations with the direction of the club: &#8220;You\u2019ve challenged us about the team, our ambition, your connection to the club and whether we\u2019re\u00a0listening. We are. But listening only matters if we do something with what we hear.&#8221;An announcement that the Annual Business Meeting will take place on Sept. 26 from 2\u20134 PM, a few hours before they are slated to host Minnesota United. Hanauer said they are doing this to facilitate as many fans as possible.A promise to begin &#8220;monthly opportunities for Alliance Members to connect directly with Sounders players&#8221; in September.They will be opening the 300-level for Saturday&#8217;s match against the Chicago Fire.While trumpeting the signing of Jovelji\u0107, Hanauer also seemed to imply that they still intend to sign more players.In closes on this message: &#8220;We\u2019re not asking you to forget the last six weeks. And we\u2019re certainly not asking you to lower your\u00a0expectations. At this point, what we do matters a lot more than what we say. Keep holding us to that\u00a0standard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly fair to argue that all of this is a little late, and from the perspective of season-ticket renewals that is literally true. But this is exactly the kind of communication many fans have been clamoring for. Hopefully, there\u2019s real action behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a rough few months for the Seattle Sounders. On the field, they only recently ended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-827330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}