{"id":73994,"date":"2026-05-25T13:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/phil-neville-leaves-portland-timbers-after-admitting-results-did-not-match-expectations\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:57:25","slug":"phil-neville-leaves-portland-timbers-after-admitting-results-did-not-match-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/phil-neville-leaves-portland-timbers-after-admitting-results-did-not-match-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Neville leaves Portland Timbers after admitting results did not match expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Team sit 13th in MLS\u2019s West Conference<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Neville thanks club and fans after departure<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phil Neville is no longer in charge of the Portland Timbers after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timbers.com\/news\/portland-timbers-mutually-part-ways-with-head-coach-phil-neville\">they announced<\/a> they had \u201cmutually parted ways\u201d with their head coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my nearly two decades of owning and operating the Portland Timbers, there are very few people I have enjoyed working with more than Phil Neville,\u201d said Timbers owner Merritt Paulson. \u201cPhil has outstanding leadership qualities and a boundless sense of positivity even in the face of adversity. I cannot thank Phil enough for his tireless dedication to this club and the Portland community, which he and his family truly embraced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/may\/25\/phil-neville-leaves-portland-timbers-after-admitting-results-did-not-match-expectations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team sit 13th in MLS\u2019s West Conference Neville thanks club and fans after departure Phil Neville is no longer in charge of the Portland Timbers after they announced they had \u201cmutually parted ways\u201d with their head coach. \u201cIn my nearly two decades of owning and operating the Portland Timbers, there are very few people I &#8230; <a title=\"Phil Neville leaves Portland Timbers after admitting results did not match expectations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/phil-neville-leaves-portland-timbers-after-admitting-results-did-not-match-expectations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Phil Neville leaves Portland Timbers after admitting results did not match expectations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}