The FC Cincinnati Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Fee done, terms next for Matt Freese
FC Cincinnati and New York City have settled on $4.2M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Kévin Denkey scores twice — 8.57
Two goals and a mark of 8.57 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 16 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at FC Cincinnati until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market10 Aug 2026
Pavel Bucha wants more than FC Cincinnati are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
FC Cincinnati go back to the board over Matt Freese
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $4.5M — a club that wants Matt Freese enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Ryan Schewe due for a FC Cincinnati medical
Everything agreed with Sporting Kansas City, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at FC Cincinnati
Miles Robinson 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
David Douděra signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Douděra commits to FC Cincinnati for another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Leonardo Muriel
FC Cincinnati asked and Cortulua said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Transfer targets The window shuts on the Nelson Quiñones deal
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Roman Celentano
- Market One of our own: Miles Adams joins the FC Cincinnati first team