The Nashville SC Post
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Elias Saad
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Cristian Espinoza stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Cristian Espinoza and Nashville SC agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Aaron Herrera 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Patrick Yazbek gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Nashville SC and Aaron Herrera
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Nashville SC, another week without a signature from Aaron Herrera.
Squad10 Aug 2026
9 new faces, and Nashville SC are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Ahmed Qasem
A mark of 7.69, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Market10 Aug 2026
A long bet from Nashville SC on Tim Adams
He is 14, and nobody at Nashville SC signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nashville SC sign Luca McKennie, one for the future
Luca McKennie is 14, and Nashville SC have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Market Nashville SC sign David Brooks, one for the future
- Match Sam Surridge rescues a point for Nashville SC
- The terraces The stands have heard the Sam Surridge talk too