The Nashville SC Post
Market3 Aug 2026
Hany Mukhtar raises the bar for Nashville SC
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Nashville SC heard it as anything else.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nashville SC may not be able to give Jeisson Palacios what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jeisson Palacios wants continental football; whether Nashville SC can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Hany Mukhtar stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Hany Mukhtar and Nashville SC agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Elias Saad was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Nashville SC
Edvard Tagseth 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Nashville SC get the job done against Charlotte Football Club
A 1‑0 win over Charlotte Football Club, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Hany Mukhtar
7.97, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Nashville SC had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Nashville SC are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Nimfasha Berchimas is in the works
Nashville SC have made the call to Charlotte Football Club. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- The dugout Christian McKennie has his say
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Edvard Tagseth's mistake
- The dugout Sam Surridge knocks on the manager’s door