The Columbus Crew Herald
Market14 Sep 2026
André Gomes turns NK Osijek down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A brace, and Santiago Rodríguez takes the afternoon — 8.22
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Santiago Rodríguez provided it, and the 8.22 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Jagiellonia deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Wessam Abou Ali reports back to Columbus Crew with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Match12 Sep 2026
Santiago Rodríguez sends Columbus Crew past CF Montreal
It finished 2‑0, and it was Santiago Rodríguez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Columbus Crew.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: DeAndre Sargent joins the Columbus Crew first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. DeAndre Sargent is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Wessam Abou Ali stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Wessam Abou Ali and Columbus Crew agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Steven Moreira 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
André Gomes did the work nobody counts — 6.91
9 combined actions and 6.91. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Columbus Crew
Cesar Ruvalcaba 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.
In brief
- The dugout Brenden Tillman: “That is the standard”
- The dugout Patrick Schulte has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout André Gomes asks for a word with the manager