The CF Montreal Gazette
Squad28 Dec 2026
Alexis Sánchez 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 CF Montreal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market28 Dec 2026
Brayan Vera has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether CF Montreal can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at CF Montreal
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Brayan Vera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Michael Creek 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
Viktor Radojević gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Viktor Radojević is on it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Dante Sealy has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Dante Sealy has written the date down.
In brief
- The dugout Bode Hidalgo knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Owen Graham-Roache is the talk of the training ground
- Squad Jordan Wright is out on the grass again