The FC Cincinnati Chronicle
Market7 Sep 2026
Roman Celentano asks to leave FC Cincinnati
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at FC Cincinnati
Bryan Ramírez 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Joe Corona 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Samuel Gidi 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at FC Cincinnati
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A step back for Kristian Fletcher at FC Cincinnati
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Ștefan Chirilă gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ștefan Chirilă is on it.
Market7 Sep 2026
No place for Paul Walters in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Paul Walters has his answer from FC Cincinnati; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Paul Walters knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Paul Walters trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Columbus Crew at home
- The dugout Bryan Ramírez keeps his manager's vote