Mark Yedlin

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Marked for Mark Yedlin

116 Edition

The Nashville SC Post

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Andy Najar: 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.” Nashville SC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Nashville SC

Edvard Tagseth was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Jeisson Palacios 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.

Market

The Sam Surridge talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Nashville SC know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mark Yedlin

“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

Zidane Yañez 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.

In brief

Back issues
109 Edition

The Nashville SC Post

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Patrick Yazbek 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 Nashville SC can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Mark Yedlin: 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.” Nashville SC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

The wait goes on for Nashville SC

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nashville SC

Jeisson Palacios 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.

Squad

Words at Nashville SC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Yazbek is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Chicago Fire take the points off Nashville SC

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Wataru Goto 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 ratings

Ahmed Qasem was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. 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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Sean Adams to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

101 Edition

The Nashville SC Post

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Patrick Yazbek 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 Nashville SC, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Mark Yedlin says Nashville SC went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nashville SC

Jeisson Palacios 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.

Player ratings

Ahmed Qasem runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Nashville SC find a way past FC Cincinnati

FC Cincinnati made Nashville SC work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Words at Nashville SC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andy Najar is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Cristian Espinoza takes the honours

Marked 7.69 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Nashville SC had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Reed Baker-Whiting is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Reed Baker-Whiting has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Boardroom

5 new boys at the Nashville SC academy

Signed today, seen by nobody for years, and one of them may one day be the reason the club exists. That is the whole of the argument for an academy, and it is a good one.

In brief