The CF Montreal Gazette
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 16 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at CF Montreal 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Columbus Crew come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and CF Montreal did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Victor Loturi signs for New York Red Bulls while still at CF Montreal
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Victor Loturi has agreed terms with New York Red Bulls for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dagur Dan Þórhallsson signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dagur Dan Þórhallsson commits to CF Montreal for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at CF Montreal
Dagur Dan Þórhallsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
CF Montreal rebuffed over Sergio Muriel
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cortulua have kept their man, and CF Montreal go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
CF Montreal promote Adam Wright from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Adam Wright 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sam Musah steps up from the CF Montreal academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sam Musah has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: John Aaronson joins the CF Montreal first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. John Aaronson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at CF Montreal
- Squad Dawid Bugaj wants to go home
- The dugout Dagur Dan Þórhallsson asks for a word with the manager