Sam Pepi

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Process

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The Nashville SC Post

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A falling-out at Nashville SC

Chris Mueller and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Edvard Tagseth gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Reed Baker-Whiting has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Nashville SC will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

The Hany Mukhtar story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Hany Mukhtar signs something — a contract at Nashville SC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

A door opens for Efrain Morales

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad

Good reports on Edvard Tagseth

The word out of the training ground is that he has been the sharpest man there all week. It is the quietest story a paper carries and it usually runs the week before somebody's run in the side begins.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Nashville SC Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

An offer of $5.5M for Matt Freese

Nashville SC have gone to New York City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Player ratings

Edvard Tagseth pops up at the right end — 7.67

7.67, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 16 signed and 0 gone

That is the business done at Nashville SC 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.

Market

Sam Surridge raises the bar for Nashville SC

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Nashville SC heard it as anything else.

Boardroom

Nashville SC go back to the board over Matt Freese

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $5.8M — a club that wants Matt Freese enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Cristian Espinoza stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Cristian Espinoza and Nashville SC agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Nashville SC

Sam Surridge and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Edvard Tagseth sends Nashville SC past Atlanta United FC

It finished 2‑1, and it was Edvard Tagseth’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Nashville SC.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sam Surridge

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sam Surridge, and the manager let it.

In brief