The Columbus Crew Herald
Market10 Aug 2026
IF Elfsborg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Columbus Crew did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 16 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Columbus Crew 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Brais Méndez stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Brais Méndez and Columbus Crew agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Matías Arezo
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Columbus Crew have done the hard part with Penarol, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Éric Bailly 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 Columbus Crew this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Jules-Anthony Vilsaint will join Columbus Crew for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Jules-Anthony Vilsaint has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Columbus Crew have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nəriman Axundzadə attracts admirers
The name of Nəriman Axundzadə has come up in conversations Columbus Crew were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Patrick Schulte
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patrick Schulte, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Sam Pulisic joins the Columbus Crew first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sam Pulisic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Alex Tillman steps up from the Columbus Crew academy
- Match Columbus Crew come up short against Toronto FC
- Squad Ernest Nungaray is a square peg at Columbus Crew