Sam Surridge

Striker - Nashville SC
22 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Sam Surridge

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The Nashville SC Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Nashville SC bow out of the cup

Chicago Fire go through and Nashville SC go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market

Malmo FF come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Nashville SC did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

No deal for D.J. Taylor at that price

Nashville SC offered $630.0K; Minnesota United FC said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Match

Cristian Espinoza the difference as Nashville SC beat Philadelphia Union

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Cristian Espinoza. 1‑0 against Philadelphia Union, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Tempers go at Nashville SC

Josh Bauer 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Woobens Pacius

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Hany Mukhtar

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Cristian Espinoza takes the honours

Marked 7.95 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Nashville SC had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

A satisfied Christian McKennie

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Christian McKennie could afford to be generous.

In brief

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The Nashville SC Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Boardroom

Window shuts: 15 in, 0 out at Nashville SC

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 15 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Chris Brady

Nashville SC asked and Chicago Fire said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Sam Surridge 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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $630.0K for D.J. Taylor

Nashville SC have gone to Minnesota United FC with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Nimfasha Berchimas

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Nashville SC have done the hard part with Charlotte Football Club, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Cristian Espinoza stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Cristian Espinoza and Nashville SC agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Nashville SC to Chris Mueller

The clock did what Chicago Fire would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Market

One of our own: Owen Ferreira joins the Nashville SC first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Owen Ferreira is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Tim Dempsey steps up from the Nashville SC academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tim Dempsey has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

1 Edition

The Nashville SC Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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 targets

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