The Columbus Crew Herald
Market8 Mar 2027
Nicholas Hagen asks to leave Columbus Crew
“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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Éric Bailly stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Éric Bailly and Columbus Crew agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Graduation day at Columbus Crew
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Columbus Crew training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Éric Bailly 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Hugo Picard 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Columbus Crew promote Andrew Johnson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andrew Johnson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Jack Moore joins the Columbus Crew first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jack Moore is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Jordan Bradley joins the Columbus Crew first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jordan Bradley is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A wage question at Columbus Crew
Malte Amundsen has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
In brief
- Boardroom Columbus Crew spend where nobody can see it
- Loan watch Jamal Thiaré cannot get a game at Union Espanola