The Columbus Crew Herald
Boardroom25 Dec 2034
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Columbus Crew
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match25 Dec 2034
Columbus Crew sink to position 14
18 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market25 Dec 2034
Only the photograph left for Aldo Solano
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Aldo Solano will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Columbus Crew the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad25 Dec 2034
Words at Columbus Crew training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brais Méndez 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.
Squad25 Dec 2034
Tempers go at Columbus Crew
Will Reilly 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.
The dugout25 Dec 2034
The manager makes an example of Aidan Liu
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout25 Dec 2034
Alain Zadi 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 Alain Zadi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market25 Dec 2034
The clock does Dudu’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Columbus Crew could ask drops and the wages Dudu can ask rise.
The dugout25 Dec 2034
The manager makes Mamadi Jiana a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Columbus Crew. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- Squad The training reports on Owen Otasowie are not good
- The dugout The manager comes out for DeAndre Steffen
- Squad Ryan Morris is fit again