The New York City Post
Squad14 Dec 2026
Brenden Yedlin damages knee ligaments — 39 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 39 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
New York City book their European place
Done, and with games to spare. Next season has floodlit nights against clubs from other countries in it, and the accounts have a line they did not have last year.
Market14 Dec 2026
Matt Freese wants more than New York City 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at New York City
Nicolás Fernández Mercau and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market14 Dec 2026
New York City promote Luca Bradley from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luca Bradley has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
When it matters, Talles Magno 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Tyler Deric
“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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The Matt Freese question follows New York City around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Matt Freese’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Jonny Shore has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and New York City will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
In brief
- The dugout Cooper Flax knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Hannes Wolf
- Squad Tomás Romero is the talk of the training ground