The Columbus Crew Herald
Market10 Aug 2026
Krasnodar watching Brais Méndez
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Columbus Crew have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
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.
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Wessam Abou Ali runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match8 Aug 2026
Columbus Crew find a way past Toronto FC
Toronto FC made Columbus Crew work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Columbus Crew training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jamal Thiaré is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market10 Aug 2026
The Josef Martínez conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Akron will make the call about Josef Martínez this week. Columbus Crew have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Andrés Herrera
Still no offer on the table, and Andrés Herrera’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Gonzalo Tapia
7.88, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Columbus Crew had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
In brief
- Market Columbus Crew sign Paul Musah, one for the future
- Squad Brais Méndez knocks on the manager's door