Samuel Gidi

Defensive Midfielder - FC Cincinnati
26 Nov 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Samuel Gidi

7 Edition

The FC Cincinnati Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for FC Cincinnati

A 0‑3 beating by New England Revolution was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Match

8 matches without a win for FC Cincinnati

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around FC Cincinnati are no longer polite ones.

Market

Standard Liege come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and FC Cincinnati did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Samuel Gidi says no to Veracruz

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Samuel Gidi had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

Pavel Bucha wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at FC Cincinnati hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

A row about effort at FC Cincinnati

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Evander was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Ender Echenique 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 FC Cincinnati this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Tyler Musah steps up from the FC Cincinnati academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tyler Musah has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

The dugout

Ender Echenique 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.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The FC Cincinnati Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Ștefan Chirilă turns Breidablik down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Market

FC Cincinnati say no — this time

The offer from Portland Timbers for Samuel Gidi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets

FC Cincinnati rebuffed over Jordan Morris

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Seattle Sounders have kept their man, and FC Cincinnati go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 16 signed and 0 gone

That is the business done at FC Cincinnati until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

Amin Chiakha turns down FC Cincinnati

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Rosenborg keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Words exchanged at FC Cincinnati

Roman Celentano and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market

David Douděra wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at FC Cincinnati hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

David Douděra signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Douděra commits to FC Cincinnati for another 5 years.

Squad

A row about effort at FC Cincinnati

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Evander was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief