Michael Yedlin

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Columbus Crew
27 Nov 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Michael Yedlin

67 Edition

The Columbus Crew Herald

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The season ends here for Columbus Crew

Inter Miami CF go through. The table said this team was good enough for months and the format does not care what the table said, which is the argument every eliminated club has had with itself since playoffs were invented.

Squad

Wessam Abou Ali is carrying Columbus Crew

25 goals and a season average of 7.33. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Aleksa Cvetković delivers — 7.70

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Aleksa Cvetković scored, was marked 7.70, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Mohamed Farsi falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Words exchanged at Columbus Crew

Nicksoen Gomis and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Steven Moreira

“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 dugout

Paul Reyna answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

Wessam Abou Ali makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Player ratings

Michael Yedlin was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

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The Columbus Crew Herald

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Brais Méndez's — 9.45

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.45, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Malte Amundsen puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Columbus Crew, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Santiago Rodríguez: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Columbus Crew have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Wessam Abou Ali is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.31 with 19 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

Nobody wants to play Columbus Crew right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Columbus Crew to Brandon Servania

The clock did what DC United would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Market

Luke Pruter’s move to San Diego Football Club falls through

The deal that would have taken Luke Pruter to San Diego Football Club 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.

Match

Columbus Crew make home a hard place to visit

10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match

Columbus Crew see off Toronto FC

Three points for Columbus Crew, 3‑2 the final word against Toronto FC in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief