The Columbus Crew Herald
Match19 Aug 2026
Brais Méndez sends Columbus Crew through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Brais Méndez obliged against Houston Dynamo. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Columbus Crew.
Market24 Aug 2026
Vegalta Sendai watching André Gomes
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Columbus Crew have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Max Arfsten
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Columbus Crew
André Gomes 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 terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Leandro Brey
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Brais Méndez in the eights
A performance of 8.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad24 Aug 2026
When it matters, Brais Méndez 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Éric Bailly knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Éric Bailly trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Éric Bailly
Nobody at Columbus Crew is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
In brief
- Match No goals between Columbus Crew and Nashville SC
- Market The Wessam Abou Ali talk will not go away
- Market Jamal Thiaré goes looking for football