The New York City Post
Market7 Sep 2026
New York City say no — this time
The offer from SV Elversberg for Matt Freese was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at New York City
Nicolás Fernández Mercau 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Matt Miazga is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Matt Miazga 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at New York City
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Raul Gustavo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Andrés Perea 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nicolás Fernández Mercau moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at New York City than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
When it matters, Tayvon Gray plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Talles Magno question follows New York City around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Talles Magno’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market7 Sep 2026
New York City and Agustín Ojeda are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Thiago a promise
- Market New York City put Greg Ranjitsingh up for sale
- Looking ahead New York City travel to Charlotte Football Club