The Columbus Crew Herald
Squad8 Mar 2027
Dylan Chambost damages knee ligaments — 32 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 32 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market8 Mar 2027
Brais Méndez’s move to Zenit falls through
The deal that would have taken Brais Méndez to Zenit has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Columbus Crew with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Market8 Mar 2027
Santiago Rodríguez hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Columbus Crew can pretend not to have heard.
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
5 academy graduates step up at Columbus Crew
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Malte Amundsen wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Columbus Crew know it.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Columbus Crew rebuffed over Christopher Cupps
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chicago Fire have kept their man, and Columbus Crew go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market8 Mar 2027
Columbus Crew promote Dylan Moore from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dylan Moore 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: Mark Turner joins the Columbus Crew first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mark Turner 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 passport keeps Steven Moreira off the list
- The dugout Dylan Chambost asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Cesar Ruvalcaba has become a man the manager trusts