Sam Dest

Defensive Midfielder - Nashville SC
8 Jul 2035
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Marked for Sam Dest

451 Edition

The Nashville SC Post

19 Mar 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Mar 2035

A fracture rules Lorenzo Cores out for 53 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nashville SC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad19 Mar 2035

Tempers go at Nashville SC

Xavier Valdez 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.

Player ratings19 Mar 2035

Nobody could get near Niko Tsakiris

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad19 Mar 2035

Maxwell Woledzi 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.

Match17 Mar 2035

A bad afternoon for Nashville SC against FC Cincinnati

0‑1 to FC Cincinnati, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad19 Mar 2035

The manager makes an example of Matthew Corcoran

“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.

Market19 Mar 2035

The Thomas Williams 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.

Market19 Mar 2035

Nashville SC put Lautaro Torres up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Lautaro Torres may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Market19 Mar 2035

Talks stall between Nashville SC and Sam Dest

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

Back issues
450 Edition

The Nashville SC Post

12 Mar 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Mar 2035

A fracture rules Lorenzo Cores out for 60 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nashville SC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match10 Mar 2035

No mercy from Nashville SC

New York Red Bulls will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Nashville SC were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings12 Mar 2035

Both of them Hakim Karamoko's — 8.50

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.50, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad12 Mar 2035

Xavier Valdez 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 Nashville SC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Mar 2035

A move Sam Dest would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sam Dest is living that version at Nashville SC, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad12 Mar 2035

Words at Nashville SC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxwell Woledzi 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.

Boardroom12 Mar 2035

Nashville SC beat the market to Lucas Juárez from LA Galaxy

LA Galaxy will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Lucas Juárez has pre-agreed a move to Nashville SC, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Market12 Mar 2035

Nashville SC buy the years ahead of Sam Dest

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market12 Mar 2035

No place for Max Murray in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Max Murray has his answer from Nashville SC; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief