Brian Schwake

Goalkeeper - Nashville SC
12 Oct 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Brian Schwake

7 Edition

The Nashville SC Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Brian Schwake is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nashville SC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Nashville SC to lose Brian Schwake for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Brian Schwake has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Jeisson Palacios falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Nashville SC Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Elias Saad damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Tempers go at Nashville SC

Joe Willis was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Nashville SC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jeisson Palacios is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Nashville SC see off Columbus Crew

Three points for Nashville SC, 1‑0 the final word against Columbus Crew in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ahmed Qasem

Marked 8.12 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Oswaldo Alanís

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

3 Edition

The Nashville SC Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Joe Willis is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Joe Willis: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Elias Saad

25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nashville SC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

The small margins put Nashville SC out

Out, 0‑0 to Chicago Fire, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Josh Bauer

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Jeisson Palacios in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nashville SC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Nashville SC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Yazbek is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Edvard Tagseth misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

Player ratings

Patrick Yazbek will replay that one

1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.

Match

Honours even between Nashville SC and Toronto FC

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief