The Houston Dynamo Sentinel
Market3 Aug 2026
Héctor Herrera raises the bar for Houston Dynamo
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Houston Dynamo heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Héctor Herrera stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Héctor Herrera and Houston Dynamo agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Houston Dynamo
Héctor Herrera 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Door shut on Samuel Adeniran
Houston Dynamo asked and LASK said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match1 Aug 2026
Austin FC take the points off Houston Dynamo
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Jonathan Bond
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Blake Gillingham attracts admirers
The name of Blake Gillingham has come up in conversations Houston Dynamo were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
Felipe Andrade wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Lawrence Ennali wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Houston Dynamo can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
In brief
- Market The clock runs on Jonathan Bond's contract
- Squad Felipe Andrade falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout Ryan Johnson: “No excuses”