Duane Holmes

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Marked for Duane Holmes

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The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Franco Negri says Houston Dynamo 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.

Market

Lawrence Ennali has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Houston Dynamo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Guilherme wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

The decline has begun for C.J Sapong

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 37 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Houston Dynamo is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Squad

Words at Houston Dynamo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Felipe Andrade 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

Marcelo Saracchi stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.34 on the card, and the Houston Dynamo support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

No hiding place for Artur

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artur, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lawrence Ennali

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Ryan Reyna on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ryan Reyna after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief

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The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Age has not caught Héctor Herrera yet — 8.06

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.06 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Only the photograph left for Lawrence Ennali

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lawrence Ennali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Houston Dynamo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Guilherme wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Market

Ibrahim Aliyu attracts admirers

The name of Ibrahim Aliyu has come up in conversations Houston Dynamo were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

Houston Dynamo get the job done against Vancouver Whitecaps

A 2‑0 win over Vancouver Whitecaps, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Words at Houston Dynamo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Felipe Andrade 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

A defender's afternoon for Antônio Carlos

Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Duane Holmes

“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

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Ryan Reyna, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief